but they need your help to find these lucky fashion victims

Lucky? If anyone did that to me, I would kill them. On camera. Dressed *fabulously*.

Death by hatpins.

That sounds good, Spidra. I hope it helps.

Although I doubt that anyone would call me an introvert, I actually have a lot of introverted tendencies

I test as an introvert on Myers-Briggs, and I seriously need alone time (I put most of my increased anxiety recently down to not having enough space - when we move, The Girl and I will have a study each, and it can't happen fast enough). But I can do socialising under the right conditions, and I miss seeing people after a while alone.

ITA on the interruptions, Tep. Being interrupted will likely lead to me dropping out of the conversation entirely, figuring my input is just not needed and I can probably stop listening, as well.

The stuff about the internal responses doesn't fit my experience, but I have developed a coping mechanism of concentrating very hard on listening to what whoever else is talking to me is saying and not formulating a response or thinking about how I feel about what they are saying, etc. This leads to (a) long lag times before I can make a response, as I have to start thinking about my response only after the other person stops talking and (b) people thinking I agree with them because my look of concentration apparently also looks like "you are so right, please go on".

Hrumph. Read article, still seeking revenge.

Grrr. On the phone with new insurance company. New mail order pharmacy does not carry the generic I need. The other generic, which they do carry doesn't work (three months of cramping and blood clots are pretty good evidence in my book). So, the only way to solve my problem is to either pay $12 every month and haul my ass down to CVS where there is no parking, or take an extra visit to my doctor so that he can write me a perscription for something else. Is it just me, or shouldn't there be another way to deal with this?

My immediate family are fierce interruptors. So heated discussions get louder and louder as everyone tries to talk over everyone else, never mind no one can hear shit.

It's made me really conscious of doing it to other people (I think), because I know we seem like a pack of wolves to outsiders.

Introverts in our family are not like introverts elsewhere. My parents still think I'm shy enough to warrant intervention.

My brother thought that he had a weak personality until he went to college. He realized that it wasn't that he had a weak personality, it's that everyone else's personality in the family was on steroids.

Seems I did too good of a job yesterday at outside work gig. And today they don't need me. Oh well. There goes a couple hundred bucks. Hopefully being cool about it will mean they will open the door for future shows a bit easier. But hey, that means I got the day to myself. In a very introverted way (yes, I'm reading the article). Only on page one so far, aside from the happiness thing, the other thing I am boggled with, that there is a Shyness Research Institute at Indiana University Southeast.

I'm not sure if I'm more on the shy side, or introvert side.

I'm right on the border of introverted and extroverted. Like James Taylor and Amy Tan, who have similar Meyers- Briggs as me.(Which I wouldn't remember if the grouping hadn't been a little odd.)

When I was a kid, people always told me I was shy, and then a teacher told me that shyness was just arrogance, because I expected people to be paying attention to me, so I interacted more after that. Which, obviously I was not shy, just introverted, and the teacher was a bitch.

ETA - "Their cognitive fatigue testifies to the fact that "acting counter-dispositionally is depleting."" is the truest thing ever. I can be as socially gregarious as you like, but I will have a limit and I will need to sit quietly and maybe nap afterwards. That shit is work.