Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: guest post on privacy in cohousing?

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

That's a variant of introvert / extrovert with which I was not familiar, and I 
have no quarrel with it.  But I think the question of origin was, Is there 
something special about cohousing that makes it particularly difficult to find 
time alone?  Or, enjoy private family time?

Philip Dowds

> On Oct 3, 2015, at 7:53 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I don’t think introverted can be equated with non-participating. Some people 
> are both extroverts and non-participating.
> 
> The sign of an introvert — and it took me a long time to learn that I wasn’t 
> just strange — is that introverts build energy while alone. Extroverts are 
> energized by social contact and even become anxious without it.