What is different, if anything, between being a shy person and an introvert?
I'm an introvert due to childhood trauma and rejection. Therefore, I believe it had been a conditioning which contributed to my 'hard wiring'. I am shy(to have reserve) due to the dread of rejection. I am an introvert due to choosing who to talk to...not very many people are interesting to me in my city, they have predictable thoughts and behavior..they are religious. So why do I live here? Because it is beautiful - forest, forest animals, clean air, affordable, very rare to have crime, and it's not odd to see people walking-not using cars.
Tehachapi is a lovely town. I live up the hill from you in Wofford Heights. I see that you like science; I do as well along with languages, music, poetry, travel and art. Would you like to compare cosmogonies?
john-henry
Not much difference to me, although it gives extroverts a way out of being boring, "oh, he/she is just shy".
I'm an introvert and sometimes I feel shy, however, sometimes I'm full of confidence and can take on the world. So I think they may be two different things.
Nothing is black and white, but as a generalization, I think shy is fear and being an introvert is preferring your own company.
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