Bourne Endeavor wrote...
I prefer to say loner or anti-social. Introverted implies shyness and based only on myself, that definition would be quite inaccurate. Come to think of it, there really isn't a term to describe someone who prefers to be alone without it having negative connotations.
Introvert is beginning to lose its negative connotations, which is good because it really is the best description for someone who needs a lot of time to himself. It doesn't even have to mean someone who always prefers to be alone; many introverts like going out to parties and bars on occasion, with the noted difference between them and extroverts being that the activity drains them and requires me-time for awhile after, whereas extroverts are energized by constant interaction with others.
This is a pretty good book on the subject. It reads like half-case analysis and half-self esteem booster, so depending on what you're looking for some stuff may be boring (I could have done without the ra-ra introverts parts but my friend says that it really touched him and gave him confidence). But I really liked the studies detailed in it that describe, for instance, the link between how babies react to stimuli and whether they grow to be introverts or extroverts. (Interesting answer, the babies that reacted most loudly to stimuli tended to grow into introverts, because introverts tend to be more "sensitive" to the world around them).
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