3 days and 3 months between intentional same person physical meet-ups, quarterly visits is just enough without being too much.
18This also applies to people over 40.
13Know what? The fact that I tried and failed to reply to this twice?
Sure. I'm, like, 7 0 years old. Why not?
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Edit 3: Thanks for downvoting. I see the problem. The joke is just written poorly. Here is a better version:
Friend: wanna hang out tomorrow?
Me: I hung out yesterday. Please wait the three day recovery period to submit another hang out request.
Social anxiety =/= introverted
Edit: If this is not social anxiety, it still isn't introversion.
"I actually performed an activity yesterday." What healthy introvert would claim a non-descript, mundane activity would put them out of interacting with anyone for days?
Edit 2: Electric Boogaloo: If you downvoted, please seek therapy. You are not healthy. Life is easier than your mind is making it.
-20You are being downvoted because you are basically saying that if you relate to the joke, there's something wrong with you and you need help.
That is incorrect, and kinda offensive. You made a lot of people feel like you think they are fucked in the head.
What healthy introvert would claim a non-descript activity would put them out of interacting with anyone for days?
It doesn't. I don't have a panic attack if someone walks up to me and starts a conversarion, or have trouble interacting with people for work.
The joke doesn't have the person hyperventilating, simply turning someone down in a humorous paraphrased way, for a reason that is quite common. "I just socialized, not in the mood for more."
Learning to turn down requests to socialize in order to ensure you even get any alone time is about as relatable as it gets for an introvert.
If I just spent all weekend hanging out with a friend playing video games, and another friend then contacts me during the week to ask about the next weekend, I'm likely to turn them down because I want to have the following weekend for myself.
You think the joke is about anxiety, as if the writer thinks in-between meeting people "introverts" suffer some kind of break-down they need to overcome, which you acknowledge they don't. But the joke matches just as well with the way healthy introverts learn to manage how much time they spend around people, vs. alone.
10You are being downvoted because you are basically saying that if you relate to the joke, there’s something wrong with you and you need help.
That is incorrect, and kinda offensive. You made a lot of people feel like you think they are fucked in the head.
Lets review.
The joke has the premise that an introvert did an activity yesterday. Let go with a mundane activity: doing the dishes.
The punchline is that because the introvert did an activity (even a non-social activity), they are now prevented from catching up with a friend for several days.
I assume that this is a dysfunctional person. But you're telling me that this is okay, and not dysfunctional.
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This rings true for just being introverted. If I recently met someone, I'll often just straight up not be in the mood for company for a few days after.
I'll say something along these lines, though maybe not mention why or even that I don't want to see anyone, instead just suggest a time further into the future without elaborating.
18This doesn't demonstrate social anxiety.
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