Comments on: Why is enjoying my favorite spots considered “hiding?”

By: cb

cb — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:28:11 +0000

Thanks! It’ll be great if people find something else to do besides worry about who’s “hiding” and enjoying being in an uncrowded spot!

By: cb

cb — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:25:44 +0000

Oh wow I’m sorry to hear it! You’d think people would learn a little cubicle etiquette, because no one’s going to want all their personal conversations listened to openly and commented on.

By: SenseiMattKlein@kids karate sydney

SenseiMattKlein@kids karate sydney — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:01:49 +0000

Like Andrew’s comment above “We are not hiding. We are re-charging”. Isn’t that the truth? It’s not ok to be “hiding in the balcony” in church, but you can go to the gym, put on your headphones and bury your face in the magazine, while on the exercise bike (I do this every week) and no one will say anything. What is the difference? Thought-provoking post cb.
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By: Colleen

Colleen — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:20:32 +0000

I just stumbled upon your blog and can so relate to most everything. I have felt out-of-place, teased and ridiculed by family for not going to all the family events, and wanting “alone” time, which made me stay away even more. I can be very sociable at the times I feel like it. I guess the impression I get most is, that they decide what is the normal and correct way to live; that I am somehow ‘abnormal” and to be pitied.

The office is sometimes so uncomfortable for me. I sit in a room with several other workers, not even cubicles to give a little privacy. One particularly nosy co-worker listens to everything I say when I dare to make a personal call and even questions me about it afterward (do you like your doctor, what is that condition, etc.). Then I am asked, where are you going for lunch, what did you have for lunch, etc. It is torture for an introvert like me!

By: cb

cb — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:13:51 +0000

You wouldn’t believe how many people get to this site by googling, “I hate introverts.” What??? We, who don’t interrupt, who mind our own business, who don’t barge in when you least feel like it, are annoying and bad? I can understand how we could get overlooked sometimes or even how people might think we’re a little boring if they don’t know us. But what could provoke any stronger negative?!

By: Winger443

Winger443 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 01:51:15 +0000

To me, that’s the key point that should be mentioned as often as possible concerning the fact of the introvert’s existence: we’re not (in a plausible, tangible way) BOTHERING anybody (me being a quiet person, including having the consideration not to consistently announce my presence with a loud stereo or exhaust system, for instance, in NO measurable way could be harming these obtuse, needy, obnoxious, judgemental – they started it – extroverted types).

By: Sameer

Sameer — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:16:15 +0000

You didnt hided. Whatever you did was correct. As you said — ” It’s not because we are “hiding” from anyone. It’s because we are sitting or walking or being where it feels most natural to us – the uncrowded, quieter path. ”
That’s right. Those people who said you are hiding are weird. Atleast you talked patiently to them. If someone talk like that to me, my reply will be stronger. After that they never ever can talk like that to me.
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By: K**

K** — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:40:00 +0000

And that is the beauty of it all.
Feeling a sense of peace knowing that what I say will be understood here…

By: cb

cb — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:35:50 +0000

Thanks! Isn’t it amazing that we all have this inside us – but we haven’t had a way to express it to anyone who understood!

By: cb

cb — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:35:20 +0000

Seriously!