Am a "severe" (I get the wrong usage) introvert, don't get Extroverts one bit.

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5. That's as incredibly wrong/unfair to extroverts as saying "introverts are selfish and care only about themselves" would

be to introverts.

Acknowledging that there are introverts and extroverts is one thing - though IMO most people are a mix of both and can act as either depending on the situation.

But it's wrong, unfair and silly to be judgmental about it.

And FWIW, there are a lot of introverted actors. Google it.

I had two actress roommates for a while when I lived in NYC in the 1970s. Both triple threats - singing and dancing as well as acting. One had gone to Juilliard. The other, a Brit, had originally trained as a concert pianist but then went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

The Brit seemed very extroverted. My American roommate, OTOH, was great at performances, including impromptu ones - I'll never forget one night when she came home after drinking for hours at a friend's place and woke me up at 2 AM to show me the tap dance routine she'd learned in a class the evening before, pre-drinking - but she wasn't good in most social situations. As I really found out when she wanted to go along with me to bars or clubs, could barely talk to anyone we met, and would complain when I met a cute guy who asked me out and she didn't. I did find out she could be more open with other actor/dancer/singers if they talked only about acting/dancing/singing.

In my experience most fairly introverted people can become very gregarious when around people with identical interests. Groups of science fiction fans, for instance.

IF I wanted to be judgmental and unfair about introverts, I COULD say that their introversion showed they cared only about their own interests and people who shared those interests, and nobody else. But that would be every bit as wrong and silly as saying extroverts are narcissists.

All people have different comfort levels in different situations...and that, IMO, is what most often gives an outward appearance of introversion or extroversion. Catch those people at different times in different situations, and you'd have a very different take on them.