Signs You're Probably an Introvert

-FuzzBeed Staff

An introvert is a quirky, shy individual, who often prefers to stay at home and to themselves.
They are not the most vocal or eager to communicate. But how can you tell if you are an
“introvert”?

Here are a few signs that you are:

1.The thought of public speaking frightens you.
The idea of bringing yourself to the front of a room to look everyone in the eyes and speak
is distressing. You don’t want all the attention on you as you struggle to get a strain of
words out. It is unnerving and you would much rather be doing anything else.

2.You love it when plans get cancelled.
Going out with friends is never the ideal scenario. Why go to a restaurant, the mall, or a
movie when you can just stay in and read a book? Socializing is overrated anyways.

3.Small talk can seem boring and repetitive.
Whenever you’re asked about the weather, school, your family, or almost anything,
you just cannot act interested. Communication of almost any form seems tedious and you
would much rather sit in a dark, cold hole.

4.You appreciate things that others do not.
Everyone seems fixed on superficial and futile aspects of life. You just can’t help but feel
alone in a crowd of brainwashed animals. You are a much more complex individual who can
never be understood by the simpleton population that is the whole of society.

5.You love cats

6.You often lack empathy. You just cannot bring yourself to show a single speck of emotion
for another living being. Your cold and disconnected personality is just who you are and you
seem to suck every bit of happiness and joy from the room, leaving it gray and sad.

This list of “Signs You’re Probably an Introvert” mocks the style of many online
articles and the types of “signs” introverts commonly express. Introverts are thought
to be very antisocial and closed off people who have a negative personality and
attitude, which is not always true. Similar to Brady’s satirical piece “I Want a Wife”,
the characteristics become more exaggerated as the list progresses. Brady begins
with examples like her wife “...[keeping track of the children’s doctor and dentist
appointments” to “...quit working and remain at home so [she] can more fully
and completely take care of a wife’s duties”.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2.0

I enjoyed being away from school, Miss Watson, and the Widow. There was no need for the proper clothing and proper talk around Pap in the cabin. But even then, I missed Tom Sawyer a whole lot and Pap warn’t always the best to be around. He would always knock me around and come home drunk, and yellin. I could never go no where when he was gone, he’d lock up the cabin’n keep me in. I eventually got to sawing a way out, but without telling Pap I was doing so. He somehow found out about the hole I was making and he wouldn’t have it. He went on saying:

“You ungrateful boy, try’n leave here and goin back to your life of frills!”

He picked up an old whiskey bottle to hit me over with and I soon began to runaround and avoid a hit.

“You think you’re better’n your father, now, don’t you…”(Twain 30).

I was gettin more angry and said back to him:

“I know i’m better than a no good drunk!”

Pap came at me a whole lot quicker, but with his knife this time. I got pushed to a corner with not a way out. But just then, my hand felt the edge of the saw. I grabbed it and hit Pap on top of his head as hard I could. He fell right back and a-mumbled a bit as he was stumbling up again. I gave him a good hit one more time and he warn’t movin after. I got to panicking so much I realized none of it was real. I sat up quickly from my bed in a sweat. I could hear the Widow and Miss Watson havin a talk in the other room. Guess it was a dream all along. Just another quiet night alone in St. Petersburg, Missouri.