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

I’ve left parties/hangouts where drugs or alcohol are involved (I mention it because it plays a key role in my excuse) and just say I went home to pass out or throw up. Really I just wanted to go spend alone time on the internet or playing league.
I like seeing people, but I can’t socialize with a big group for hours on end, exhausted after 30 minutes or so.

I once was walking through Hot Topic and I thought I saw an employee walking out of the back. Not want to have them ask me "how are you doing today?" or "can I help you find anything?" I ducked behind some clothes. Upon further investigation, I realized there was no door to the back. It was a mirror. I had seen my reflection out of the corner of my eye and ran away to avoid social interaction.

Started cutting my own hair. Got real sick of making small talk, and paying the "you have a vagina" tax for my hair (it's shorter than most of the modern men's fashion cuts)

I would get grounded intentionally as a teenager so I would have a solid excuse and reason for not being able to hang out for a couple weeks while I recharged my batteries.

In school when I was having a “I don’t want to be in public anymore but I don’t want to ditch because I’ll get into trouble” Day I would find my favourite science teacher and ask if he could make arrangements for me to hide in one of the empty classrooms and study by myself rather than go to actual class.

I had people extremely concerned about how ill my daughter was. To the point of getting regular texts checking up on her.
She was my go to excuse to bail out on plans. I'd always say she was throwing up or something but I guess I did it too many times. That plan back fired sooo badly.

My old roommate was talkative and would fill empty air with endless chatter just to continue a conversation no one else was clearly interested in and actively not contributing to. He also talked only either about anime or inflate his own ego.
I started wearing headphones with music loud enough for people around to hear just so he physically could not speak with me.

Hide in my room for house and only left once the other people had left. Gone to the grocery store at 1am so that I didn't have to talk to anyone. Now these are me in extreme states. Although I'm introverted I'm also pretty social. Sometimes I just go through fazes where I just want to hide from the world.

Grocery shopping can be so torturous, sometimes I end up not getting half my list because too many times people are standing in front of what I want. I can only bother to ask so many strangers to move until I'm over it.

I sat in my car for a half-hour in ninety-something degree weather because I was too nervous to spend lunch in the work breakroom or sitting in a fast-food joint. My car didn't have air conditioning.

In my company almost everybody says hi! and good morning etc. everytime you pass someone down the hall, even though there are more than 300 people working here. I just smile and pass...
But I say hiiii!!! good morning, good evening and all those small niceties to all cats and dogs I see on the street. And with a genuine smile this time.

My husband host UFC nights at our house and unfortunately our bathroom is downstairs. I was dying for a wee so texted him to tell him he needed to get everyone outside so I could run down have a wee and get back upstairs without anyone seeing me.
He made everyone go out to the car to see if they could tell him what the strange sound was that was coming from my car. Strangely enough when they checked the car was silent.

Allow me to start this by telling you I am a healthy 70 yr old, but given to bouts of vertigo and when I fall, I break. My neighbors know this. I am not always a recluse, but oftentimes I prefer to be alone...some times for days. I was going through one of these times, when a neighbor knocked on my door. I didn't have time to turn off the tv or the lights, or think to turn on my phone. I just didn't answer the door. She knocked several times before I heard the sirens blaring. Yes, she called 911 and then I had to explain why I didn't answer the door for the 10 minutes the neighbor was knocking or answer my phone. Embarrassing. After that, I put a note on the door..."In a mood, leave a note."....with a notepad and pen in a baggie on the door handle. Works!!

I was at a party. Sitting in a corner, reading. This person comes up to me and starts trying to make small talk and make me dance. A polite “no” doesn’t work. So, I look them dead in the eye and start meowing until they get so weirded out that they back away slowly and leave. Nobody comes near me the rest of the party.

This isn't that much of a story of how I went to great length to avoid someone, but it's quite a funny avoidance story. So a few months ago, I wanted to get a job (I'm 16 so some money of my own would be nice) so I walked about 2 miles to my local visitor centre (I live in the middle of nowhere) to see if they had any jobs going. I went in, got too scared to talk to the person at reception, then walked the whole 2 miles back home.

I pretended to have gone to a different town for a whole week, just so I could skip school and have no one looking for me.

I use the Amazon drop point opposite my house so I don't have to answer the door. Ever.

I avoid social interactions by litarally acting as weird and as annoying as possible because people scare me

So I'm the type of person that can't say no to an invitation. This got me into quite a few pickles growing up. And for some reason, I always had one friend who was insanely clingy. I got sick of these people and having to say yes to all their invites to have sleepovers, so my mom got really good at coming up with reasons for me to come home early from things. She would always call a few hours after I had gotten there and we had a code for when I wanted to leave. This ended up causing quite a few tears coming from my friends growing up. All my friends always thought my mom was super strict and mean, when in reality, she is the most chill, kind, easy-going mother there is. To this day I still sometimes use my mom as an excuse to get out of things. I'm now 25 and she lives 3 states away :D

Never missed a day in English because I was to afraid/shy to ask notes/updates from classmates if I ever did miss. Was sick as hell coming to class one day and kept coughing, had tears pouring out of my eyes because my throat was raw and I lost my voice trying to explain why I even bother coming.