slightly related to the last post - introversion vs extroversion is also kind of a dichotomy, but man like:
- my way of coping with depression and existential Unhappiness is to hop over to Dynamis and do "community service" for strangers (queue adventurer in need for roulettes, or alternate healer/tank until I get the "we only needed one more" instant pop)
- likewise if I get Obnoxious People in a roulette my response is to go run another as a palate cleanser
- I constantly want to meet new people! (in contexts that I'm comfortable with but. please invite me to your EX farm parties or leveling sessions) I am constantly hopping into new Discords/webbed sites in hopes of finding new cool people. hell, if a random person at the store talks to me out of the blue, as long as they and the conversation were cool, I walk away feeling pumped up!
- likewise I am WAY more comfortable in group settings than extended 1:1, unless you're someone super close to me.
- I have described myself as "feeding constantly off of the Excitement and Comradery of a good group" and said things like "people are all delightful fruit trees and I am running through the orchard with wild glee, cramming fruit in my face left and right"
- I struggle to play any kind of non-multiplayer game these days because what's the poooiiiiiint. (or I try to find a way to get people involved, like streaming)
- me, looking upon the social enshittification of the Internet: "is this how hummingbirds feel as they watch their food sources disappear"
overall, when I'm feeling down and need a boost, I sure beeline for Where The (Cool) People Are! it certainly feels like I have to jump through fewer hoops to call myself an extrovert with chronic health and fatigue issues as opposed to a really, really, really, REALLY social introvert.
(and it definitely explains why all of my ""fellow introvert"" friends found it hard to keep up with me, or were baffled by how readily I threw myself into New Socials...)
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