Introversion
Early to Middle Adulthood Leaving Fusion I got to work with a couple of other Christian groups – largely unsuccessfully. I also fell in love. This was the first time (and so far the only time) I have fallen in-love in the intense and intensely sexual sense of the term. I love my current partner [...]
Part 3 Early Adulthood One of the great good fortunes of my life was to join an organisation called Fusion Australia – now Fusion International. It is a christian based, non-denominational, youth and community work organisation. Staff were paid by donation (called ‘living by faith’ in the Evangelical jargon) – so few of us were [...]
Part 2 – Adolescence For me at least adolescence was about finding out how to fit in with others and the world in general. This was a bit of a challenge for an introvert. Especially for an introvert who was a thinker. It seemed to me that there weren’t clear rules; and the rules there [...]
Part 1 – Childhood The introvert I am writing about is me. When I look back I feel that I have always been an introvert. This fits with what other people tell me, that I was “shy” and so on. One complicating factor was that at about 18months of age I had a couple of [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog called An Introvert’s Authenticity. The introvert referred to is yours truly. For me honouring my introversion has probably been the trickiest part of authenticity – especially at those times and in those places where you are meant to ‘sell yourself’ (I think [...]
