A while ago I decided that personality metrics were just another way for some people to pretend to know someone else without actually making the effort to become familiar with them. For most people, being able to describe themselves as introverted or extroverted is at best useless and at worst detrimental.
I'm not introverted. It might just seem that way to you because I don't share any of your interests and I don't care for small talk. If you see that I am alone most of the time, that may just be an indicator that the sort of people with which I enjoy socializing are relatively rare in the general population.
I am generally offended by people who suggest that I learn to accomodate the social customs of the so-called "extroverts" rather than the other way around. They would have me stuck at a boring party with 10-40 people, unsuccessfully trying to avoid malicious gossip, instead of pretending to kill orc slavers on an imaginary war galley along with 3 to 5 other people for whom the real treasure to be found is friends that value you for the things that make you different.
Some people will always try to categorize you. It isn't necessary to help them do it.
I'm not introverted. It might just seem that way to you because I don't share any of your interests and I don't care for small talk. If you see that I am alone most of the time, that may just be an indicator that the sort of people with which I enjoy socializing are relatively rare in the general population.
I am generally offended by people who suggest that I learn to accomodate the social customs of the so-called "extroverts" rather than the other way around. They would have me stuck at a boring party with 10-40 people, unsuccessfully trying to avoid malicious gossip, instead of pretending to kill orc slavers on an imaginary war galley along with 3 to 5 other people for whom the real treasure to be found is friends that value you for the things that make you different.
Some people will always try to categorize you. It isn't necessary to help them do it.