0184 - Party time - 2021.04.12 |
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Comment: I've seen it said - and, for what it's worth, I agree - that there are no such things as "introverts" and "extroverts", and certainly not as exclusively binary categories. Everyone just has their own upper limit and lower limit for social interaction, and if you go too high above the upper or too low below the lower, you start to get... weird. If forced to categorize myself, I usually say I'm an introvert, but I have a pretty broad range with it. My high is reasonably high and my low is extremely low. I can handle crowds and even audiences fairly well, and I have no problem either being the center of attention or hanging back. Conversely, I have no problem spending days at a time away from people - indeed, I would say I thrive when I'm locked away from the world like a monk. Lee and Caleb are, obviously, both pretty introverted, but I think we can agree that both of them long ago passed the "getting weird" stage. Zoa, in contrast, has no upper and lower limit - assuming it can keep itself functioning, it could handle isolation for years and years... although, presumably, at some point it would delete the social subroutines that are taking up space, which may constitute "getting weird". At the time I'm writing this, 2021, after a year of pandemic isolation, I'm really jonesing for a party, even if it's nothing more than drinking protein and watching cartoons. Even in this case, though, I'm a little more choosy than Quip is, here. Yes, everyone here is a college student, and Quip is an extremely college student-y college student, but still. |
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