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all i can say is...AMEN!

that's me to the very last drop. and if you ever here of an Introvert's Rights March on the Washington mall or somewhere, let me know. i'll be there.

okay, this article makes me angry, because while this guy may have introverts down he is misjudging the extroverts in the exact way that he gets mad a tht extroverts for judging the introverts: "after two minutes alone an extrovert will reach for the cell phone," "in introverts ran the world it would be a calmer, saner place." For myself, I don't know whether I'm an introvert or an extrovert, so I can't say, "no, that is not true because I am nothing like that, but I feel that 75% is an awfully large portion of the population to make generalizations about.

Laura- I am totally with you on the March. We could just up and form one.

Linnea- I was thinking of you when i read the article... especially the reaching for the phone line, since that is so not you. He is over generalizing on some points. Also, you probably are an extravert since you are more motivated to "Get out and do things" but you and I both spend so much time in our heads it's hard to tell our I/E difference at first glance, thus my initial thinking I was an E and you thinking you were an I.

Hmm...while I take every personality test I find, they never seem to be entirely accurate, and I end up falling back on the old "you'll have to be around me to get to know me" routine. I'm not sure that needing to be around people is necessarily a sign of extrovertism. I would prefer to be around people than not, but I don't always want to talk to them. I just want to be near a breathing body that I could talk to and elicit a response from if I so happened to want to do so.

Funke- I am definetly an introvert and I am also very relational... so while I need my space, I prefer it to be in a house were there are people close by to call on if I happen to want to talk or just a hug or what not. Is that sort of what you are saying too? Type doesn't have to do with boxing you in, at least for me, it has to do with figuring out your tendencies and breaking out of the invisible box your already in.

I also have distinct qualities of both an introvert and an extrovert. In that article, there were some descriptions of both that fit me, and some of both that didn't fit me at all. I know I used to be nearly all on the introvert side, but things have changed over the last few years. Hmmm.

I think introverted/extroverted is specifically important in how you recharge in life. I am definitely socially extroverted (i.e. people person) as well as emotionally extroverted (I can't work out my thoughts and my feelings unless I talk it out with someone else) but one thing is for sure, I NEED my "Alone Time" to continue functioning, to have energy. If it was people people people all the time I'd be overwhelmed.

The article has some pretty ridiculous over-generalizations, as Linnea said. It's also "obviously self-dramatizing," as a professor here described Emily Dickenson's letters as being today. I don't take it particularly seriously, and I am an introvert - by his definition and my own.

You got it, deke. :)