Rachel - "It's taken me a lot of practice to learn how to shut up and wait to see if anyone else is interested in saying anything, rather than assuming that just because they're not babbling at my speed that they have nothing they want to say. (Blanket apologies to all those I have inadvertantly run over in the process.)"
Hey, on behalf of my own tiny percentage of the introvert population, thanks for eventually noticing. Just make sure to spread the word.
No, no, that article is clearly talking about me ;) Though when I was younger I was morbidly afraid of speaking in front of people, but I blame that on church. Also, as Chad said...
"And, as Kate can testify, when confronted with a group of silent introverts, my natural reaction is to babble more or less constantly, in hopes of getting some sort of response. I probably drive you all batshit, for which I apologize."
This habit in me developed when I went to work in a Silicon Valley company and started going to lunch with the other software people. It was eerie to sit at a table with a bunch of people who mostly, like me, had no pressing desire to talk very much. A great icebreaking joke in those situations is as follows:
'How can you tell if an engineer is an introvert or an extrovert? ...
'An extroverted engineer looks at *your* shoes during a conversation.'
Which also brings up the whole eye contact issue. When more than one person is in the room, unless I know some or most of the parties very well, eye contact is almost intolerable while speaking.
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