Three days a week I make a conscious effort to keep my car in the driveway, make do w/ what I have in the fridge, and talk to as few people as possible... and it makes me so happy...
Herzmenschen, die einen so wichtig sind, dass sogar Sprachnachrichten in Kauf genommen werden. <3
If one more person tells me l'm indecisive, I seriously don't know what I'll do.
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Tokyo Bar Opens as 'Introvert Embassy,' Issues Chat-Free Passports
Exhausted citizens flock for diplomatic immunity from conversation
This week is national introverts week. The greatest challenge being to try and find an introvert to celebrate with.
"The introvert-extrovert battery metaphor has flattened a sophisticated neurological process into a simple energy equation.
What’s actually occurring is post-social cognitive processing — the brain replaying, categorizing, and making meaning from every emotional signal it detected — and empathy depth, not social fatigue, determines how long it takes."
I feel seen.

The quiet after socializing isn't recovery from depletion — it's your brain running a complex sorting algorithm on every micro-expression, tonal shift, and unspoken tension you absorbed, and some of us simply have more data to process.
/* Outsider's Lament */
I'm a misfit in all misfit spaces
It's the life I have been doomed to lead
Not obsessions, dabbling in most cases
Never true fangirl, variety's what I need
But the view from outside can be lonely
Sometimes I wish that my truth were less true
If could feel fandoms like you, see
Perhaps we could be friends, me and you
But alas, to pretend would be lying
So I'll stay on the outside looking in
And when inside I feel like crying
I'll tamp down and hide it with a grin.
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