Meh.

[badseed1980]

This is how I know I really am an extrovert: I get so depressed and woe-is-me when I spend a lot of time alone. Yes, I saw the boy Thursday night, but that was only for a few hours before bed. I spent Thursday alone until evening, Friday alone, Friday night alone, and today alone, and now I'm spending tonight alone. Blah. See? I'm bitching and moaning and feeling sorry for myself. Highly unattractive.

I do have nice smoky brown eye makeup on, though, and that is attractive.

Maybe a martini and some food will cheer me up. And a movie and some knitting. *nods*

Comments

[roaming.livejournal.com]

This is where it pays to be an only child: we're used to alone.

Or one of a huge family, where alone feels like a blessed relief.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't mind SOME alone time. In fact, I enjoy the occasional night alone. But I need it interspersed with social interaction.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I'm an only child and an introvert - I get *really* antsy if I'm stuck with people for too long. Even my SO.

[roaming.livejournal.com]

That happens to me too. It's like my brain and my cells get filled up with stimulus from other people's energy: at some point I just stop, full up, like a wind-up doll. Can't take anymore in, can't put anymore out. (It's also an ADD symptom.)

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Ah, ADD; "my child is too intelligent for me to cope with, and he's not enough of an extrovert. Please medicate him until he's normal".

I happen to be very skeptical about the medicalisation of normal variation between humans, in case you couldn't tell from that :) I'm probably diagnosable with ADD myself - except that as a child I was more correctly diagnosed as "too bloody clever by half", and got sent to Cambridge instead. So for me, being incredibly easily distracted from boring pastimes by interesting ones, able to "hyper"focus (ie. concentrate properly) on a project and give it heart and soul until I'm done, and being something of a loner are the Burdens of Genius™. For kids born in less fortunate families, I suspect they would be the exact same labels that get you Ritalin prescriptions...

[roaming.livejournal.com]

I see your point: yes, it's all too easy to try to "normalize" everyone down to the lowest common denominator. Personally I don't think either extreme is the one to follow. But failing being brilliant as an excuse, I have known a few kids whose ability to manage their lives HAD been helped by quieting the onrush of competing stimuli with meds enough so that they were able to sort them out. Not everyone has bootstraps to pull themselves up and out with. Meds, properly titrated, can provide bootstraps.

[lothiriel-1.livejournal.com]

And I guess I'm really an introvert. I never left the house today and have no real plans to do so tomorrow, either. Heck, I didn't even shower until 3:00 this afternoon. It was so nice to not have to worry about having to be someplace...

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't mind a day like that, but more makes me feel really bored and starved for conversation.

[leenah.livejournal.com]

i'm an extroverted introvert - i'd love to see you, and also alleviate your 'woe is me' thinking, but i'm ensconced at home, and the thought of going out makes me feel slightly ill. so, not thinking about that any more! wish i could be more helpful there, but i cannot.

i bet you're gorgeous right now, 'cause you are whenever i see you. you're a beautiful woman.

best wishes!!!

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Aw, you're sweet. :) A martini, dinner, and Edward Scissorhands have improved my mood. I forgot how exquisite that movie was!