Marilyn Thipthorpe
1. You’re Selectively Social: You definitely don’t mind hanging out with a group of people, even large groups, but you can only take so much of it. You find yourself selectively scheduling when you go to social events because you’d prefer to spread them out whenever possible.
2. You Have A Small Friend Group: When it comes to close friends, you keep a very tight knit circle of just a few people, and that is perfectly fine with you. It’s not that you don’t let people in, it’s just that you’re not constantly seeking new friends/attention. Why would you when you’ve already got such great friends that you’re comfortable with, you know?
3. You Enjoy Meeting People, But Can Also Find Them Exhausting: You love to casually people watch from a coffee shop window, and you especially enjoy meeting unique people with interesting backgrounds. But mindless small talk is not really your thing, and after having to make conversation with strangers, you need to take a couple of days to just be by yourself. Just to rejuvenate.
4. You Value Your Alone Time: Not only do you not mind being alone, you savor a little quality me time. In fact, there’s hardly another person that you’d like to spend time with, and I may be a little biased here, but I see nothing wrong with that.
5. You Can Be The Life Of The Party: Because you like meeting new people and don’t necessarily consider yourself anti-social by any means, some people would never know how introverted you can be at times, especially not if it’s their first time meeting you. When you’re in the right mood, and have had limited social engagements that week, you’re quite the life of the party.
6. It Takes You Time To Warm Up: It can also take you a little time to warm up to people, mainly because you don’t particularly care for mindless chatter about the weather. But, once you start to get to know people a little better, you’re fine talking about virtually anything. It just takes you a little time to loosen up. It’s almost as though you have to remind yourself that you’re not alone and then get over the anxiety that comes along with that.