Reading helped me decompress in a nicer way

I second this, as another introvert with many of these characteristics. If I am pushed to hard for too long, I get SUPER cranky.

(I've spent the last 4 days trapped by severe winter weather in a house with my very noisy and extraverted DH, who doesn't respect this need sufficiently well when it clashes with HIS needs... Oy. BOY am I glad he went off to work this morning... ahhhhhhh... silence... )


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.