Introverted people, what's the furthest you've gone to avoid human interaction?
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As a introvert, we will explode the earth just to not talk to people.
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Shhh! Don't tell them about our plan!!
But only if we can do so without any human interaction. However if I can convince a cat to help me, YAY
I jump from a moving car to avoid handshakes
I decided against going to my high school prom because I knew I'd just end up sitting awkwardly on the sidelines for the whole evening, and from the reactions I got when my classmates found out, you'd think I'd spillled some terrible secret that I'd been keeping from them for years - that's how shocked there were that I was abstaining from the exact type of event I've always hated.
I only ever went to one dance and while it is actually pretty funny in retrospect, it did not cause me to have any interest in attending anymore dance afterwards.
It's 2009 at a public middle school in a not terrible but not good school district. the students start arriving and all of the chaperones are freaking out because apparentally one of the special needs kids had been dumped in the parking lot by his parents 30 minutes before the dance actually started did not even have the $5 that was required to attend and was currently running around the gym where the dance was being held making dinosaur noises at people, while the principal was trying to call his parents. apparently this kids parents had a habit of using after school events designed for kids who were... you know... developementally on level as 10-13 year olds as a free babysitting service for their 12 year old with the funtionality of a 1st grader, despite being told MULTIPLE TIMES that if they wanted their son to attend such events one of them or another family mamber who was atleast 16 would need to stay with him the entire time. So we all pay our $5 and enter the gym where this kid is running around like it's a chuck E cheese. and basically we all just stand there in a circle around the perimeter watching him because anybody who would try to enter the dance floor would be chased down and roared at by dino boy. Eventually it became a thing where kids would dare their friend to run accross dino boy's territory to the other side and then run back which actually ended up being pretty hilarious some of the girls were in high heels and would trip then scream as dino boy ran towards them. but 10 year old me was miffed that my first dance was "ruined"
@@angrynoodletwentyfive6463unrelated but why is your big block of text built like Ariana grande?
Never went to school prom either. Didn't have any friends to be shocked I wasn't going to prom and I was completely fine with that
Same except I actually went. I did talk to this one guy the whole time, well more like just listened to him.
As an introvert, I only go outside for tasks I HAVE to do or to visit my dad.
I literally stay at home most of the time to be free of concerns about people around me.
When I go out I just keep to myself and do my tasks, take out my phone if I need to wait for something, and that way I don't have to deal with anyone, really.
I might freeze up with an unexpected doorbell ring and not even open when I've been seen by the person ringing the bell.
Simply preferring not to go to parties doesn't have to be social anxiety at all. You can simply be introverted and not be a fan of parties without having social anxiety. Introversion and social anxiety are not the same thing. They can often co-occur but a person can also be/have one and not the other.
It also doesn't constitute "anti-social behaviour" - anti-social behaviour is planting land mines or rigging booby traps on your property because you don't want people bothering you. It's perfectly fine and reasonable being "asocial", which is what people actually are meaning to say when referring to themselves as being "anti-social".
I’m also an introvert. I don’t go out of my way to avoid people, but if I get peppered with questions I will stop talking and hide. Living with a chatty grandma doesn’t help
Im not an introvert (well, Im a Finn, so..), but Ive done weird shit to avoid awkward situations. Once my neighbors argued in the stairwell, I needed to go to pharmacy, so first I just waited, but it started to get close to closing time. I ended up jumping from my balcony, I live on the first floor, the railing is good 2m+ from the ground.. I was so glad they were done by the time I got back! Once I was in a public bathroom, some lady busted in and let out horrible, wet diarrhea fart. She obviously expected she was alone. I sat frozen and silent in my stall, pretended my hardest I wasnt there, while trying equally hard not let my soul leave my body, had to wait several minutes for the fart lady to leave. The smell almost had me gagging, I tried to breathe thru my t-shirt lifted over my nose, like some weird toilet bandit. Yeah..
Its such a catch-22 because to get therapy or meds for social anxiety, you have to actually MEET with a therapist and TALK to them and by god... schedule phone calls. Im 25 and i had to get my fiancee to set up my appointments.. its never too late and take this as a sign to ask for help if you need it! My life has completely changed over the last year with regular therapy and great meds
okay persons with autism here. My poor bf practically had to drag me out of my house to go to therapy. I liked her and had no problems with her, but for some reason the prospect of having to go made me have a meltdown. we moved so no more therapy for now. Im going to try again but more coaxing will prob be needed bec fck leaving my house.
I worked up enough courage to pick out a therapist and schedule an appointment electronically - and never heard back. So I never tried again since. Welp.
If I’m feeling particularly introverted, and I’m in the grocery store and have to pass someone in the aisle to get to a food item, often times I just go around the other way through another aisle to get to the other end where the item is.
I actually have a reputation of being quiet, but very friendly. But when I don’t wanna people, I don’t wanna people:
In a lot of places people just full on ignore crosswalks where I live, cops even ignore them and if anything happened people always treats it as the walkers fault
Honestly I dont blame getting a medical reason to skip the christmas party. Thankfully ive never had a situation where i was going to a mandatory event with people i hate.
Though ive spent many a group outing ending up on my lonesome and more annoyed that no one went to check on me for 3 hours than the fact i spent that time alone.
i like the not robot voice makes any reddit review 10x better
I would lie about having a friend in town and get my own hotel room too. Sharing a hotel room with someone who wants to party all night is awful, especially if you're not comfortable with them in the first place.
I learned to enter and exit my flat in total silence so that the nosey downstairs neighbour wouldn't open the door to talk to me. And I would never answer the door when somebody knocked. My neighbours actually began to believe that my flat was empty.
"If people aren't stopping for them in crosswalks that's their own problem." I was taught from a young age that just because you might legally have the right of way doesn't mean you'll win in a fight if a car doesn't stop. Sure, you might be able to sue the driver for any injuries you get but that doesn't prevent them from injuring you.
Note that this is from the pedestrian's point of view...from a driver's point of view I always give pedestrians the right of way, I just know that if I'm walking somewhere being right doesn't always keep you safe.
if you struggle with british place names, try to pronounce the last name "Cholmondeley"
it's much easier than it looks, just "chum-lee"
story 9, youd be shocked how many drivers figure" my 10 ton car hads he right away over that 170 pound human walking acrost a spot ment for pedestrians. besides, it will take too long to break, so im going"
this is a very common mindset these days... and is why refuse to ride bikes in the streat when when required
First of all, crazy how much I can relate to story 9 😅. You’re in a car, you can move faster than I can walk please just go lol.
I’ve never really avoided human interaction but I will say I love hearing stories about the pandemic and how it completely changed lives while I’m just over here playing Spider PS4 and hoping no one calls to check on my well-being
Oh hell yes. In the time it takes a driver to stop, gesture, you notice they're gesturing, you notice WHAT they're gesturing, you getting yourself back into motion, and you crossing the entire street; they could have just passed and and you would be across the street without hesitation. And not at a heightened self-conscious speed.
I had two roommates who were very extroverted, and one just seemed to love drama. I starved in my room many times because they invited people over without telling me, or they were just out there, and I just couldn't bring myself to deal with any kind of interaction with them. Eventually I started hoarding little snacks and things to drink in my room so I could leave me room as little as possible until I knew they were gone. The bathroom was a different story. I would open my door, roll against the wall, and practically fall into the bathroom as quickly and quietly as I could. So glad I'm no longer living with them.
I worked at a fastfood company that had no break room, after working at one that had a extremly small one(talking a desk two chairs and it was right under the bag hanger), I ate in the employee bathroom for 8 months before being brave enough to eat in the plazza with all the customers.
i often modify my path to my house from school because i want to avoid people and it is surprisingly effective because i barely encounter any people while going back from school, like a single person per week
As an introvert, it took me till my sophomore year in highschool to mention a concussion i got three years prior because eh its too scary to talk to people.
The only person who knew was my friend who was right next to me at the time
As an outsider I am somewhat fascinated that in a country like the US where these kind of anxieties seem so common and where mental healthcare seems common knowledge too like nowhere else in the world that there are still so many universities with mandatory dorm living. Sounds like a recipe to traumatize a third of all college kids in each generation by default.
you got any idea what healthcare of any kind costs in the us
the teacher in story 1 is definitely a nice teacher
Keeping myself upstairs... for sleep and then 4 hours. I couldn't stand talking to people who mentally destroyed me. I hate my father, some of my mothers other boyfriends, and they are part of the reason I never socialise to them. Don't have contact with any of the ex-boyfriends and I'm super glad.
A bit late to the gathering but here's my story.
One time when I was in elementary school my teacher wanted everyone to go to the computer room which I hated. My teacher asked us to bring a paper and pencil with us, but when I looked in my backpack I had no paper. Because I was too scared to ask the teacher or someone else for a piece of paper, I decided to hide under my desk while everyone walked out of the classroom. The teacher didn't notice I was there and she turned off the lights. I stayed in the dark for a long time before the teacher noticed I was missing and went back to the classroom to find me.
I pretend to be hard of hearing when people want my attention sometimes 😂
Introvert + social anxiety. When I was in eighth grade I used to take the public bus home. I used to be so anxious that I didn’t use the seats in the bus fearing that people would start getting in and I would be judged for being young and using a seat, so I sat in the gap between seats where no one would judge me for not giving up my place. The thing was that my “seat” was in the very front of the bus and at that hour of the day the bus started to get very crowded at certain stops. Of course being as anxious as I was I had identified these stops beforehand as to get off my special seat before I had to start asking for permission to move towards the exit, but this day I was distracted reading a book and could only stare in horror at the amount of people that had got in without me noticing. The bus was packed and with my social anxiety I was physically unable to ask people to move in order to get off at my stop so I travelled all the way to the final stop of the bus and got off with everyone trying to look like I knew where I was.
Of course I was too embarrassed to call my mom to tell her that I got off at the final stop because I was embarrassed to have a small interaction with strangers, so I took another bus that I thought might get me close to home and walked the rest of the way. Fortunately the place I had gotten to wasn’t actually too far from my place, but thanks to my anxiety, a trip that would’ve taken me about 45 minutes took about 2 and a half hours.
I am no longer as anxious as I was in eighth grade but I think this is the incident that made me realize I might have an actual issue.
Speaking as someone who walks where there are crosswalks, *drivers give zero fucks even though I have the right of way.* I have stood very nearly *in the road* as far as I can without risking getting hit, and drivers don't even slow down.
I’m extremely introverted and usually if people try to interact with me I become hostile twards them so they don’t bother me. Usually works
I just don’t answer the door if I’m not expecting someone I want to talk to. One delivery person was a very insistent knocker; I almost thought she’d never leave.
Two words: overhead headphones
I am an ambivert: an introverted extrovert and it is HELL!
Even when I feel tired and not quite social, I’ll straight up socialize with people because I’m scared they might feel left out or they might think I’m mad at them and being a rude ass bitch.
When I really cannot handle meeting other people and being seen, I’ll stay home with my depression kitty, petting him until I fall asleep. I’ve built a map of all the deserted routes I can take to the grocery store when I really need to get food or house supplies. Once I’m out in public, my headphones stay stuck to my head even if I’m not playing any music just so I can pretend I haven’t heard people who call out my name.
And then, I have my extroverted phases when I can’t stay home, because I feel trapped and I absolutely need to get in crowded areas so I can feel and bathe in the surrounding energy. I’ll also start contacting my friends to see if any of them is down for a drink.
Quit uni... twice. When I had roommates I 'made' food in my room so I wouldn't be seen in the kitchen and only came out when nobody was around, including going to the bathroom. Only took trash out in the middle of the night and, on noisier weeks, I sometimes stored the bags in a corner until I gathered enough courage to risk being seen. I'd hide in corners or stay by the door during events, avoid walking down isles that had people in shops, pretend to play on my phone to avoid crossing streets with cars, turn in random alleys so I wouldn't have to pass another human... and so forth.
I started hiding in the bushes during my smoke breaks. Those bushes were more of a shrub and they had this little area where I could step inside and be completely hidden while having full sight of my work spot. People seemed determined to find me specifically on my smoke breaks and would stop at nothing but do f all if I was sitting in that booth playing on my phone. The company who owned those bushes removed them once their secret camera caught me hiding in them too many times. I guess they got sick of the complaints. It was like 20 times in 2 years. Not sure why they removed them.
my step moms side of the family HATED me. Constantly bullied and constantly told "your not one of us" Id hide in the great grandmothers room that she passed away in. I curl up on her old bed and play my DS till i was allowed to go home. Eventually i didnt have to go over anymore. As an adult iv moved across the country and Bf moms side of the family DESPISES ME. So i dont really leave my room or my house even. Maybe for an hour or 2 once a week for groceries. I dont have friends so im terminally online. Im not a bad person by any means, I am just blunt and truthful and people dont seem to like that. I dont enjoy lying or sugar coating and my bf loves that about me.
Same with me. I don’t like to lie about something to sugarcoat it.
Only reason I'd go to a party/social event that has a bunch of strangers is for the food
I hate talking to people i don't know too well, but i also love traveling by bus and train
Ah, feels good to see some people are worse than me. I was firmly convinced i was crazy untill my 50s, when an aunt let me in on the secret...since then i follow kinda my feelings instead of really forcing myself to be like the others tell me i should be
I spent my entire 6th grade doing my ‘recesses’ in the bathroom. Like I barely went outside, and continuously found ways to outsmart the teacher to go into the bathroom and read books. Cause people are a no.
Oh and when the cleaners would come to clean and I was home, I would hide out in the basement and would wait until they were confirmed gone before coming upstairs to get food…. No matter how hungry I was, it was never enough to socialize 😂
Shit.. These people are social butterflies compared to me.. I only went to great distances to avoid social settings as a kid - but as an adult, I've lived in my parents old house now for like 15 years and for most of that time, I've had zero contact with any of my old friends. My wife used to be the only person I would see daily but now, even she left. I see my parents for a few minutes a couple times a week and I see people at work that I'm _friendly_ with but I literally hang out with no one. And I do/have done the thing with getting a knock at the door and sneaking around trying to see who it is without letting them know I'm here - I eventually just put up cameras and then got a doorbell cam - but this is how I stopped hanging out with most of my friends. I just didn't feel like doing something someone else wanted to do. And I also used to be notorious for disappearing from gathers - sometimes when drinking but mostly when smoking weed. I would just get super anxious and everybody would make me feel weird and I'd just quietly excuse myself and disappear into the bushes - and they'd always get worried and look for me and stuff. I just had to quit smoking. But on my days off or vacations/holidays and such, I might go 3+ days without seeing another person or speaking a word - and I go weeks at a time with the only recent calls on my phone being scam calls and bill collectors. All of this used to bother me and, even though I've always been antisocial, I'd have to call friends and hang out once in a while. But now, it doesn't bother me and 2017 was the last time I hung out with a friend. We made knives out of files.
Here where I live, you have to wait and watch carrefully to cross even on a crosswalk, and be sure to watch to both sides even if it's a one way street. Here in Brasil, people who stop for you to cross in the crosswalk are just way better educated than most. And when it comes to motorcicles, be sure to watch out even if you are on the sidewalk, there's some crazy people who disregard the safety of anyone just to get wherever faster.
I have schizophrenia and have always avoided people. I got some bad meds that made me even more depressed and tired, so now I’m not even awake during day time when everyone is out and about. I used to order food to home for years but right now I’m too tired to do even that, so I’ve lost a little weight. I was supposed to be hospitalised and given new meds two months ago, but it was posponed till next week.
There is a shortage of psychiatrists in my state, and it’s not easy to get into a hospital either, even when it is an emergency. I’m really embarrassed that I’ve let my condition to get so bad that I don’t eat, don’t go out, don’t sleep and don’t talk to people.
Update: I saw a psychiatrist and I was immediately sent to the psych ward lol
The using stairs instead of the elevator I do that too except it's 11 floors of stairs lol unless I have crap to carry up and wait for the slower time. also wait longer to leave if I hear someone in the hallway
Misanthropic indifference always comes in handy. Unfortunately, 99% of people in my country doesn't even know the word misanthropy exists
lol the one at 7:43 reminds of just after my dad died and my mom and i moved into a house but mom was 26 and i was 3 and she was a bit scared of strangers just stopping by so if anyone came to the door that wasn't expected mom would cut the lights and sounds and say get down and we'd play " see who can be the quietest the longest" hahaha and we'd be laying on the floor as sometimes people would go window to window trying to see in to see if we were home. we lived pretty far out into the woods so that was super scary! So i came by introversion honestly at least like mother like daughter! oh and this went on well into my life until i was a teenager at least!
Thank god I am not as bad as most of these, and I am already pretty bad. A guest comes over for family that I am not familiar with, I will go through effort to avoid them. Give me a few visits and I will open up to be able to interact with them.
Still have essentially panic attacks though, that it is practically impossible to meet people. Tried online dating once, and one person got upset that I didn't answer straight away, so kind of traumatised there.
I once spent 10 years never leaving the house once and another 5 years only leaving to go and get groceries and see a doctor. I really am afraid of people in general. Now I work once a week because of disabilities. I was working 3 times a week, but they lowered it to two times a week and now its 1 time a week. I'm constantly worried about being fired. And the thing is, my job is a cashier at a grocery store. Yeeaah.
I've told 4 different Jobs that I would not accept a promotion. I quite one of those Jobs on the spot when they tried to do it anyway and made a massive scene walking out. Within 2 Months they stopped being 24 Hours. Everyone there was incompetent as hell, I will absolutely never try to manage low paid workers- they're low paid.
My father and mother are divorced and I live with my mother. There was a time when my father invited me to go to a barbecue party in the countryside. I said sure, drove alone for 2 hours to get to the place, looked at it, found a bunch of strangers and no place to park my car. After looking for a safe place to park the car for around 15 minutes I asked myself "why the hell am I even here...?", turned around the car and got the hell out of there, then, on my way back, my father called me, asking why hadn't I arrived yet, and I don't even remember what excuse I gave him, but damn, I felt bad, to the point of crying... arriving home, my mother asked why had I arrived so early, so I had to explain what happen to her, expecting her to scold me, but, to my surprise, she told me I had made the right choice.
PS.: The people on the party were just common folk, nothing dangerous or anything, just strangers to me. There were like 200+ people from what I could see but the only person there I knew was my father.
A couple months ago I was gaming while my mom was hosting a party. I was so shy that I didn’t want to leave my room. It got to a point where I kid you not I pissed out my window and got pizza delivered and climbed out that exact same window from to room to get the food. Just so I didn’t have to talk to my moms friends
Group of girls in the hallway? Nope. Taking another hallway even if it means getting late.
I'm not an "introvert", just anti-social, lol. No need to hide behind a pleasant euphemism. Besides, tell people you're an introvert and they want to "bring you out of your shell". Tell them you're asshole and they stay away all on their own, lol.
I'm an extrovert but I also have empathy, a true friend wouldn't try to get an introvert to change, I love my introverted friends all the same and enjoy the time we spend together.
I skipped most of my classes and stayed in the bathroom. Sometimes I stayed in the bathroom for an entire school day
Like the taxi bus one, I saw someone I wanted to avoid so I got on the wrong bus that ended at a shopping centre on the opposite side of the city from where I wanted to go, it was the last bus of the day so had to get the taxi . I was supposed to be in a lecture but didn't want everyone looking at me if I walked in late so I went home.
I would go into my choir class during lunch because only me and my friends knew about at the time and being forced to be in the cafeteria didn’t sound like a good time 😭
In 7th grade summer I didn’t leave my room for two months. I ate in my room and everything and would only come down to clean my plates
I am perfectly fine with strangers. I'm not ok with seeing people more than once and building a relationship. Crowds are ok with me
As an introvert, the farthest I’ve went is literally leaking all my info on a different device to the public then pretend I was robbed and didn’t attend school for a long while. (I remained as a principal awarded student)
I went 3 days without eating because I didn't want to deal with people at the grocery store and same issue with having food delivered
I am not only an introvert but I have severe anxiety! I avoid any situation that makes me feel uncomfortable or embarrassed because it only makes me unleash a panic episode,I left high school twice because I missed classes, I always went but sometimes I was a little late and the shame of asking permission to pass was so great that I hid all class outside,I also hid during free times like recess , when it was time to go I just ran out , I talked to few people but I felt so so bad and also I even got bullied sometimes , it's still very hard for me , I also work in customer service, believe it or not, but my interactions are more both respectful and monotonous...
I moved into a student apartment about 2 Months ago. I haven’t vacuumed yet bc the vacuum is somewhere in the common rooms but I don’t know where. I also don’t want to ask the janitor, bc it’s been 2 months. So I’m just spinning in a circle while the dust accumulates and am slowly dying from shame. Also yes, the dirt bothers me. A lot.
Hid in the bathroom to avoid school picture day
I feel so seen and understood... These are my people lol
Dear introverts, if you'd like to hold in a sneeze for a short period of time, squeeze your nose and from my experience it delays it for about 20 seconds to a minute.
I too am an introvert.
story #9, when i do my walks i try to avoid paths that require to cross streets. even if i have the right way on crosswalks, i prefer the car to go first since i dont want them staring at me while im crossing
This video makes me realize that these people aren't introverted their antisocial. As an introverted person myself I've never found myself in any of these situations whether I be in the comfort of my own home, at work, or outside in public. A lot of these people in these threads just need plain old help.
The number of Introverts are climbing! PTSD is often a cause that slowly gets worse over time. Mine being 24 years ago, I'm a hermit, wonder why VIETNAM VETERANS OR IRAQ WAR VETERANS OR AFGHAN VETS ARE INTROVERTED? Same thing, and it is a creeping condition that can only be appreciated by others who we value closely and more often than not suffering the same. Usually over a quite a few beers!😊
Story 9 is relatable.
For story 9: Two things. Firstly, whenever I personally am in that situation, just shaking my head "no" and waving them on in response usually does the trick to get them to realize that I still can't cross even though they're letting me. They usually seem confused for a second at first, then they see the traffic still going through and realize. Secondly, yeah you're right. Where there are crosswalks painted on the road, pedestrians have right of way. However, this is usually not enforced well enough at all, and you can't just Start Walking Anyway because the drivers in these places simply do not give a fuck. It's WAY too big of a risk to assume that the drivers are going to stop for you if they're approaching as fast as they usually tend to do.
For context, I was raised in Pennsylvania. We had a LOT of New York and New Jersey drivers, and the former was well-known to act like the entire road belongs to them. No self-awareness at all, riding the shoulders to cut ahead of traffic, laying on their horn the millisecond the light turns green when they're behind you, aggressive driving, the works. The New Jersey drivers weren't quite as bad, but they still acted like turning lanes didn't exist and were also pretty dangerous drivers.
And before the New Yorkers start coming after me, chill out, I'm one of you lol. I was born in the Bronx, as were my parents. My dad is a stereotypical New York driver. Used to speed through gas station parking lots to get around red lights, and I mean he was practically _drifting_ so uh... Needless to say I did not like being in his car lol
Or, y'know, the OP could just be from the many parts of the world where jaywalking isn't a thing. I sure don't want to walk ten minutes up the road in search of a crossing point if the other side of the road is just eight steps away.
@@DivingDog0 Shaking my head no has also worked for me in this scenario as well, dw! :3
(Due to the fact that I live in a place where jaywalking is illegal, this is a "joke")
I lived less than 10min walking from school and our lunch break was 55 minutes. I'd eat lunch and then go home to poop for about half a year
i used to be what youd call shy, now ive figured out im just an extreme introvert. when my grandparents used to come to my home when i was younger i would hide under my bed amongst all my toys for about 2.5 hours at a time. they came round every week.
Did you really just tell a whole bunch of introverts to go meet a new person to talk about what they dont want to talk about? LMAO i would have done that too
I almost went thru with a plan to fake my death to avoid going to a family gathering-
I feel like a fake introvert after seeing how far people can go to avoid social interactions
Most of the stories were not examples of introversion, but of social anxiety. It's not the same thing.
for me, i dont like social interaction at all, but because i have to interact sometime, i just plan every single possibility and folow the plan. this mean that if someone say or ask something out of what iv planned i will have a mental blockage and just whait akwardly trying to change subject back to what i was tryna say
awkwardly standing in bathroomstool for an hour. But I try to go to events and stuff, I just end up all the same it kinda angers me to be honest,,, I want to be more.
I swear I'm like some social mutant. I can have face to face contact with people but asides from a very select few people I'll put on a "social" face and go with the flow. And man is it draining to do that. With a fellow Goon though...I'll talk to the end of time. Otherwise I like not having to talk.
"Social face" is exactly right. To get by in social situations, like work, I go into it playing a role like an actor. I play a character I call "work guy". I turn him on when I get out of the car at work, then turn him off when I get back in the car to go home.
very glad I didn't have serious anxiety
Same. I'm a very comfortable introvert. Not at all afraid of social situations, simply prefer not to most of the time.
I'm an introvert but also am profoundly lazy so most of these sound like waaay too much work. I'll just stick with the "stare-down" technique.
3:30 Genius I am doing this
6:11 Might come in handy one day
Stayed inside entirely too much avoiding the sun and people to the point where, at least I think, I developed Multiple Sclerosis from severe Vitamin D deficiency. It went undiagnosed for long enough that my body is wrecked so I can't work anymore. Probably not how I developed MS, sounds par for the course to me though.
yeah, that´s called anxiety, not introverted. And introverted is also different from shy. I was shy as a kid, probably axiety too. and introvert. Today it´s introvert and anxiety 😅 but I can speak with people If Im in the mood and know what to talk about. small talk no thanx.
How’s that therapy going everyone?
I merged my dna with a cuttlefish and gained the power to camoflage so perfectly I look invisible. Also I have used that power to scare friends too. It's fun. Lol
Bro, why don't they just say they are an introvert or don't really like being around people instead of doing all these stupid things? (By the way, I'm not an extrovert)
Bro the roommate staying in her room and roommate texting asking if they’re okay was totally me hahaha but it was a weird situation.
hey at 12:07 i think by ‘tick’ they meant ‘tic’ dunno tho
Hey Chris
I stayed on the bus for 20 or so extra stops bc the person sat in the seat next to me (they were in the seat next to the walking lane) didnt get off before i needed to and didnt wanna ask them to stand up...
i live in a big and busy city and i couldnt walk in the local area without seeing people i know.. who obviously would want to talk and stop and say hi etc... i got so sick of it that i moved 4oo miles to somewhere that no one would talk to me.
in high school i spent every lunch period hiding and standing in the bathroom stall i did change which bathroom i used but going into a full lunch room made me both blind and deaf and that did not happen when i stayed in the bathroom. lol
Pretended to be busy with a "totally real" phone call to act like I didn't acknowledge the popular girls walking in the same hall way as me
My first day of high school I had to meet the classmates in my homeroom. This was on a Wednesday. I was to take a test on where everyone sat on Friday. I joined the marching band on Thursday. I didn't even know how to play an instrument at the time.
im a swimmer and i was really scared to talk to my swim team when swimming alcatraz and golden gate last year so i was the first swimmer to jump into the ocean so i didn’t have to talk to them
I'm guessing you live in America? You pronounced Leicester correctly but I bet you can't say Gloucester or worcestershire correctly because I've not heard an American say them right yet, I live in England. I really like listening to all your videos because they are interesting.
I locked myself in a room with only chatGPT to talk to for a year. Thats how far I went to avoid people. In the time I learned Python HTML made a mod for a game. Built a custom deep neural network to copy the artstyle of hellsing ultimate and begun my magnus opus project of Pandora where I am seamlessly combining 8 instances of chatGPT as the central core of my own personal AI assistant. In short I went mad and started building companions and partners as I had the technical skills and knowledge to do so. Honestly kinda worth I'm feeling really good!
There was a vending machine a few feet away from a little store at my college that both sold the same candy bar I wanted. The vending machine was 25 cents more expensive and I got the candy bar from the vending machine just so I wouldn’t have to interact with the cashier
Simple no interaction tax that I'd be willing to pay. I mean its nothing personal towards others. It's just that social interactions can be absolutely draining.
If I'm in a non-social mood I just ignore people saying my name and pretend I couldn't hear them bc headphones
Lol
Anyone here to learn new tricks?
I refuse to attend parties in my own house, I didn't even attend a few of my birthday parties.