50 Introverts Reveal The Incredible Lengths They've Gone To Avoid People

When going grocery shopping, if I see solicitors I make sure to have a pair of headphones on me so I can put them on. They don't talk to you if they think you can't hear them. Just avoid making eye contact.

When I was 11 i was at introvert peak as i had just moved to UAE. Now i went to this awful school becuase it was the only one that would acsept me and brother in late july . ( In UAE parents have to find schools in march or april to maximize cheapness as schools can range from 14,000 - 100,000) So there was this bitch named charsi and her little minosons named Afroza & Umakar. Now charsi loved to make rumors about me saying I stoal her money , had sex in the bath room (EVEN THO THE SCHOOL SEPERATES THE GENDERS) etc. So when her "friends" wern't at school she'd try and me do her bidding .So when ever so went right i go left . she go's up i go down i went so hard to avoid her and the bitches at that school i would hide behined so high schooler so no one would see me. Moral of the story : Middle school is a bitch breeding ground

One day in my Science class my teacher said, "Okay, Matt do you have a project?" I said, "Yeah, but I'm not feeling too hot." I got out of class for the day. And then the next day, "Matt, would you like to present your project?" I mumbled, "No." And ran out of the classroom.

I was so shy in high school that I did not attend my own graduation ceremony and opted to have my diploma mailed to me instead.

I always feel extremely uncomfortable while traveling by train, as I have to avoid eye contact with two to three people sitting right in front of me. Sometimes I close my eyes and pretend to sleep (can't actually sleep because I snore sometimes in my sleep and make it hard to decide how to act or be embarrassed about it if I don't know if they saw me snoring), go to the toilet and stay there for a while, pretend to enjoy the view outside the window even when there is a tunnel there is nothing one can see.

Took a longer route to head home with uber so that I could avoid telling him directions for the shortcut

All of these people need serious help, and this is coming from someone with severe social anxiety.

I had climbed into my house through my bedroom window just because my mum had guests over and I wasn't keen on walking past and greeting them.

Sadly, when I climbed back out to walk in the front entrance and greet my mum, after the guests left, I forgot to unlock my bedroom door. Oops.

When I was 19 I skipped my classes often;I'd not recieve calls from anyone, I'd pretend like no one's in the house so that I wouldn't be doing small talks; there were days where I even skipped my exams; I wanted only my presence n wanted no one around me; I had been in that place for a few years n still don't know some of my neighbours; I can't help it n like only my company; well it is also true that I'm not like this everytime, I do socialize.. only thing is I don't do it often..

I love my brother, but he is very high energy and sometimes i need to escape. When we moved in together, i started saying i needed to exercise and lose weight, and would just go out and walk for hours alone. I ended up losing 23kg and am almost the same size as before i had kids. Nice.

I'll stay in my room for hours if I hear that someone I might not know, is in the kitchen. Even though I know it's gonna be fine if I walk out there, I just really, really, really don't want to.
Sometimes I'll wait for hours in the morning, before I get any kind of morning rituals done. All for that sweet sweet alone time.

At Wal-Mart when I see those guy who try to sell you internet and cable. I reroute how I'm going to get the that section of the store so I can avoid talking to them.

I once peed in a plastic bottle in my room just because my roommate and his friends were in the living room and I would have had to go through there to go to the bathroom

My dad works as a mechanic and I live right beside his shop. I see his customers come in and out a lot whenever I'm home during the week. Every now and then. when I have a day off from work, I see someone I know from church out there. They're good people but since half of them are retired, they like to have small talk a lot I guess. So to avoid having very long conversations with them, I stay inside with the door locked all day, play video games, and hope they don't come over to talk for any reason.

I have severe social anxiety disorder...i remember in middle school, relatives would stop by my house and i would run and hide upstairs (sometimes for 6 or more hours without food) to avoid speaking to them. My mom would be extremely mad at me, and my older brother would make fun of me, to the point of crying, for days.

On those days that i feel super introverted that I just can't handle social interaction, lie to my mom and dad saying that I feel sick, have an assignment due or have to study for a test so they could let me stay home. I then lock Myself in my room and watch movies all day long.

I was chilling with a friend but i was done with it. I told him i had to work and hoped that he would leave. Instead he said o oke i wil stay here until the traffic is gone. So i left and waited for 2 hours outside until i didnt see his car anymore. Very very embarrasing

One time I was invited to my friend's party, but of course I couldn't bear to turn her down. I hid under the table all day and stole food from the tabletop...

#18 ... That would actually be $98.50 tip ...