Reminder: #introverts need a certain minimum amount of #solitude. For most, this means an empty house. When people are running around in the other rooms it isn't solitude. Please remember this for the sake of your #introverted loved ones.
(Also, this isn't an illness or an affliction or something regrettable or something to be fixed. It is our way of being and it is perfectly valid. Please respect that.)
@muninn This times 9000. I really underestimated how much "only me" time I was getting before I moved in with my girlfriend and I strongly suspect that correlates directly with my lack of productivity all last year.
@jaycie It's tough to find a happy medium. I didn't understand my needs in this way until the first girlfriend I lived with got depressed and stopped leaving the house basically ever.