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Yes, and I avoid them entirely. I can't tolerate the noise or the people and their stink and the stupid things their degenerate minds talk about and the stupid plastered on smiles they wear to cover up the utter emptiness inside and yeah.
Some of you seem to be confusing introversion with misanthropy.
Amen! I see this all the time!
They're not the same, although both can occur in the same person. Us introverts simply need to be alone now and then to recharge our batteries. Got nothing to do with disliking people.
I avoid going to parties or large social gatherings where the majority of people in attendance are those I don't know. I'd rather stay at home or go out and do my own thing.
I don't mind parties/social events.. If the crowds aren't too big.. People would mistaken me to be an extrovert but its merely a social facade.. I'm mostly a quiet observer in any type of interaction.. My natural curiosity and shrewd observation of human behavior have made me come across as strange or an oddball lol..
I don't hate. But I don't care for it either. Clubs, parties, family reunions, etc.
Same with friends. I wouldn't want to have tons of friends. A few close ones, sure. And I always preferred more soft/quiet fun and environments, rather than very loud and/or rowdy.
I don't know how much of an introvert I really am but I definitely am one...
I like parties and social events, but the hours leading up to them can get me pretty nervous. I almost always REALLY want to go, but will start to conjure up excuses/outs within 3-4 hours of the event happening. I just start thinking that an evening alone watching TV/playing video games will be better than the party or whatever. I usually do go to the event.
I knew a girl in college that was like this but tended to bail much more than me. We each moved separately to a different city, hung out occasionally after moving there...
One day we were going to meet up after work to go get dinner and watch a game on TV. Because of awful traffic, I headed her way a bit early. When I finally got to her neighborhood, she texted to cancel (said she was caught in traffic, not surprising to me at all).
Told her I was already in the area and I decided to get dinner at a restaurant nearby, sorry she had to cancel blah blah, then 10 minutes later she showed up, dressed and ready to party.
Had a discussion about it, sorta cornered her about her attempt to cancel and I told her I'm the same way.. but somehow I almost always grit it out and go if I'm invited to something and agree I'll show up. I wasn't lecturing her, just relating.
We discussed the anxiety we feel in these situations and found we felt much the same aside from her usually bailing and me usually showing up. We became much better friends after that and I noticed her showing up to friend gatherings more often. It's like she needed an anxiety coach to hold her up to social commitments. Just needed to know she wasn't alone, or something...
Well, not if I'm comfortable with the people who are there and I feel that ALL of the people in attendance are cool, etc.
The problem is, a lot of people can be very judgmental and usually the larger the crowd, the bigger the likely hood that someone is there who you don't mesh with, if they aren't an all-out douchebag.
Some of you seem to be confusing introversion with misanthropy.
Ha! Yes, I see that, too.
I like parties and social events, but there comes a point in the evening when I need to either go home or step outside and recharge. It depends on how large the event is, how many people I know, and the context in which I know them.
For me, the worst part of certain events is not going to them or being there. It's leaving, when everyone stands around for 20 minutes saying goodbye. That part is torture.
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