Just How Introverted (or Extraverted) Are You?

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I think that I get all of my energy from chocolate...

Seriously, what does it mean 'to get energy from others/yourself'? I find interacting with other people exhausting, but I don't get any energy from myself, though the rate at which I am using it is a lot lower.

Here's my clear-as-mud explanation on the issue -

What do you do to mentally "recharge your batteries," so to speak? Do you spend time alone, or do you spend time with others? Do you feel the most natural and at ease by yourself or with other people? I find that it's easier for me to concentrate when I spend more time by myself.

Definitely time alone then. However, if I spend too much time alone I end up being completely focussed on my obsessions. This can be more exhausting than dealing with people though for different reasons (such as stopping eating or sleeping enough).

huh?

in some odd way that feels like it makes sense actually...

anyways, i. LOVE. the. rollercoaster!

i think i'm an extrovert at heart. i'm very very very social when it comes to people that aren't plastic boring barbiedolls and kens. i'll chat anyone up as long as i don't feel like i'm being a bore. i'm very talkative, but paranoid i'll bore people because i talk *too* much. if you start talking to me about something random all of a sudden you can bet i'll have something to say. i just love talking to people.

but if i talk to people in person i have to recharge my batteries afterwards. i get migraines from interaction. when i went to school i had like a migraine attack a week. after i stopped school, i get one like once every... i don't even know...my migraines have decreased dramatically because i'm always home "alone" and the only people i mainly talk to are online. i go to the grocery store about once a day and that's my IRL interaction for most days.

as much as i'm an extrovert, i'm also very introverted. ambivalence anyone? i'm very ambivalent too. anyways, i love to be alone physically but with someone mentally. i feel alone if someone's not online or there are no new posts on the messageboards i go to. i'm only lonely physically because i'm apart from my fiancé...if he was here i'd be content not seeing anyone else in person ever again.

No one has been able to agree on that one. On the one hand, for the most part of my life I would appear to prefer curling up in bed with a good book or a good computer, and I'm incredibly shy at parties when I occasionally go. On the other hand, I am very loud and can be quite a people person. I can't even tell you whether I get my energy from people or alone time: I can get quite hyped up by people, but I get exhausted after a bit. I don't know whether that's cos I'm introverted or whether it just takes that much energy to figure out the social scene!

i think you can be both extroverted and introverted. who says you can't be both?

Wow, before SquanderedPotential posted, I thought we had a board full of introverts. Anyway, whenever I take those MBTI tests I always get 100% introversion scores.