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

I'm staying over at my girlfriends house over winter break and she decides she's going to throw a little get together for some of her friends. I figure, sure it won't hurt to have a couple drinks and meet her friends. Next thing I know there are 60 people I've never met in this house having like a real party, which is very much not my scene so I went to her room turned off all the lights and pretended to be asleep for hours before she finally came in and ripped me a new asshole for being antisocial. Naturally this wasn't very encouraging so I went downstairs forced myself to throw up in front of the crowd then immediately went back upstairs to continue pretending to sleep until everyone left...the next afternoon.

In my sophomore year I was so shy about socializing I would hide out during lunch every day and draw in my Chemistry teacher's classroom. She had a dry erase wall that I filled with doodles and I ended up making giant Chemistry poster that is still hanging on her wall. I even helped her grade papers and organize supplies and dangerous chemicals that students weren't allowed to touch. We became very close and still keep in touch today. It was much more pleasant than interacting with those insane high-schoolers.

When I was in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade I went to a school that had like a house with toilets outdoors, I never went to the toilet during the breaks cause the other kids were there, I always waited until the lessons where I would sneak outdoors to the outdoors toilet, only in my socks to make it look like I was going to the normal indoors toilet, even when it was freezing cold with ice and snow on the ground, I made my way to the outdoor toilet, everyday for 3 school years, only to avoid other kids to be in the toilet.

The very first PTA project I always initiate for every classroom I'm in is an iron grill gate. Putting on a padlock, I'm very happy that people got the message. Also, when I was still single, I would lock the gate from the outside, thus, discouraging potential suitors.

I wear a mask (part of my Halloween costume) and headphones that are blaring music just to avoid people... I get stared at more which actually is slightly against what I want, but at least people don't know who I am

Had to do a presentation in class with a group. Pretended that I had a super sore throat so I wouldn't have to speak.

Guy I was dating spent the night and I didn't want to have to deal with him in the morning so I said I was late for a 6 am spin class. Got dressed in my workout clothes and rushed him out the door at 5:30. Drove around the block, came home and went back to sleep.

i worked at a printing n packaging company with the office + showroom are at a busy business building. sometimes I went to office in weekends just to be alone from people at home, but mine's a showroom sort of office with glass walls, so sometimes people will try to poke in and call me up for services even tho I put up a 'closed' sign n the operating hours are printed large at the glass wall. I'll pretend I can't notice them while intently staring the laptop screen reading manga. by chances I have to address them after my signs are ignored, i'll put up a 'I hate you through my smiles' face, and when consultation ends and they did asked about operating hours, I made them feel very bad for disturbing me. if my mood are bad that day, i'll directly tell them no without hiding my 'hate face'. wondered why i'm still employed till today tho.

As a summer camp counselor every day I would go to my car and read a magazine, all day. Did that for a week.

In secondary school, I once didn't want to talk to my friends because I'd just ended a relationship and I didn't want them to ask about it. so I wore a plain black hoodie, hid somewhere in the middle of the line to each class, I didn't say anything in the role-call. At lunch and break I hid in the councillor's office because the toilets were too crowded. Turned out the school called home because they thought I was skiving. I spent more time explaining and apologizing to mum, dad and my teachers than I would've spent talking to my friends.

Sometimes, on weekends, I'll bring up an entire day's provisions at like 9am to avoid interacting with my roommates all day.

One time I was at the mall food court with my parents and we ordered taco john's. My mom forgot to order cheese sauce for the potato oles so she handed me a dollar and told me to go get some. I really didn't want to talk to the guy at the register so I walked up close enough til my mom couldn't see me. When I was out of her sight I waited a few seconds then walked back and said "they were closed." I have nothing against my mom I just didn't want to talk to anyone.

There is a hallway at school where everyone's classes are together . I hate using it though because people found out that I am socially awkward and have Scopophobia. Now people have been trying to talk to me and stare at me in the halls on purpose. I now I have been hiding in a different hallway and just run to my class 5 seconds before the bell rings to avoid everyone looking and speaking to me.

part of the reason I always bid for graveyard shifts with weekdays off is because i liked going to the beach or during the winter skiing on weekdays and having no one around, one early morning I got to the beach and no one in sight, about half hr later some guy pulls up, and with a mile of beachfront he had to set up right next to me, I had some Judas Priest cranking on the car's stereo and apparently that wasn't enough to make him leave so I next put on the nastiest most hardcore metal on the stereo and that did the trick, he decided he didn't need to be on that spot of the beach, I am not a loner but I do enjoy solitude and introspection and this dude was most definitely intruding.

I used to hide in the bushes at my bus stop.. all day.. so I could avoid going to school. Not because I didn’t like school. But because I didn’t like people. It started in 2nd grade. I would eat my sack lunch and go home when the bus dropped the other kids off.

Frowning is the way to freedom. They are always thinking that I'm annoyed and try as much as possible to avoid me.

One time i was home alone and heard a knock on the door. immediately i an from he living room to my bedroom, slammed the closet door open and ran inside. Closing it then waiting. turns out it was my family coming back.

Whenever I go shopping I always use the aromatic self check out machines. No matter where or how big or small the purchase. But I also choose to shop at places like 24 hour Wal-Mart's to go late at night to avoid crowds.
The only bad thing is that at a certain point in the night they shut down the auto teller and only have one lane with one person open. My interaction with the human teller is so awkward that I decided to calculate the best times to avoid people and not miss the machines before they shut down.
So now I have a 2 hour window in which I buy all my groceries, household necessities, and pet supplies. Does it take me forever to check out 50+ items on that tiny counter, yes. But the feeling of triumph I feel as I exit the store without having talked to another person all day long, is more than worth it.

I live with my mom and step dad. Whenever people come over I hide in my room and will txt my mom and ask her to go and get me a drink or food. She understands that I have terrible social anxiety so she helps me with out judgment. She also goes with me to the doctor plus I can't drive because of my chronic illnesses. So she will drive me to the many doctors I have to go to and she sign in for me

In college, I had the choice of paying $100/month to rent a house with 6 other people, or $400/month to rent an apartment by myself. Solitude was more important than groceries.