“Hi, my name is Frank, and I’m an introvert.”
[crowd response] “Hi, Frank!”
Okay there’s no real support group for introverts that I know of (not that we’d get together for it anyway), but it is a personality trait shared by a large percentage of the population. I started to research the numbers, and the best I can say is, it’s probably less than half.
For those of you who are not blessed with our condition, it doesn’t mean we’re antisocial, awkward, or shy. In a nutshell, it means that we don’t draw our energy from other people like extroverts do. We draw it from within. Given that, forced social interaction bothers us… it wears us out and zaps our energy after a while. We have to find some alone time to recharge our batteries. It’s just who we are.
So, you may wonder how we deal with a massive geek-fest like Autodesk University.
2017 will mark my 15th AU, and my 12th consecutive year of attendance. During that time, I’ve gone from being a meek little…