Originally Posted by
Traveler
I imagine consistent social success could cause Extroverted Introtims.
Or at the very least innately extraverted people who remain popular throughout school/their career don't become "introverted" or "shy".
I think innate extraverts can be "beaten down" by social defeat into being shy. This raises a slight addendum I wish to make:
Better than "introverted" is "shy". A genuine introvert is just inherently not a people person, and sees no reason more than not not to talk to people. A shy person cannot approach others out of fear, and may be introverted, extraverted, or somewhere in the middle.
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My fresh conclusion is that we need to consider a third scale on top of e-/i-tim and e-/i-version: shyness versus confidence.