It's strange what lurks behind the doors we make in our own minds.
I don't know that *all* introverts are secretly traumatized extroverts, but that was certainly my brand of "introversion" for most of my life.
If anything, I'm annoyingly extroverted, probably >=98th percentile.
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Hm. Mind sharing what feels latent but not brought out in you? Some particular social drives, something else?
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Yeah, this makes a huge amount of sense. I started out fairly extrobishionistic, always sharing my thoughts and feelings.
This was... very often not popular. It's still not popular in most circles I have access to.
There is certainly no great benefit in being open to hostility.
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I feel like the transition for me started when I found that the people I care about the most don't mind my extroverted side.
And that many of the people I have around, who might mind, really shouldn't be part of my circle at all.
"Just get better friends," sounds lame, yet...
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... there is something to it, even if I'm the last person to suggest this is always easy or immediately achievable.
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