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Originally posted by Flawfree
There's no such thing as a shy extrovert. Being an extrovert by definition means that you cant be shy.
An introvert forcing themselves to be outgoing is one of the hardest things ever. You're basically fighting your very DNA for the sake of making some friends and having a good time, which you don't even enjoy very much. So that wins.
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this is a very uneducated response. as an introvert, it's very possible to make yourself outgoing and in many ways it's not even really that hard, you make it sound like it's a ****ing juggernaut. being social just means talking to people and if you want to be relatively more social than you're comfortable with you just have to be around people more and putting yourself in a social situation isn't hard. what's hard is whether or not you have the capability to speak when spoken to and from there hold a conversation. and don't generalize, there are different kinds of introverts, those who can't be outgoing for whatever mental block and those who push through despite their personality preference because being a productive member of society slightly calls for being social.
and excuse you, shy extroversion is not an oxymoron, of course it can happen. some people thrive on being around other people, that's what being an extrovert means, but it's very possible that you might be too shy to actually go up to someone on your own.