You like hanging out with people, but find it exhausting after a while. You can have the most fun a person can have and still want to end the night by yourself, curled up in bed with a good book or the remote control.
If you go out and do something for five hours, you need ten hours of recovery time. You need attention like an extrovert but will quickly tell someone to stop looking at you. However, you might love being social, getting to know people and being the conversation-starter.
You're often the friend that is left to do all the talking in awkward situations, yet you yearn to keep to yourself. You're either a people watcher or you're involved in the moment yourself. Every day it's something different. If someone else is loud, you're going to be the quiet one. If someone else is quiet, you'll do all the talking. It's an automatic adjustment that you can't help; it's just your personality. Trust me, I've been there.
Once I was told by a teacher that I needed to make up my mind on what type of person I am. The previous day I was chatting up a storm with people across the room and that specific day, when she called on me, I pretended like I wasn't even there. Here's the thing: we don't have to make up our minds. Who says you have to be either an extrovert or an introvert? You can be a combination of both. It's perfectly OK to be someone that balances things out. Despite what anyone says, you can be the life of the party or the girl spending her Saturday night on the couch with her cat. You can even be the life of the party while laying on the couch with your cat. You can fine tune your behaviors to match someone else's or do your own thing. You're allowed to be yourself.
Being an ambivert means you're in touch with your inner self but also everyone around you. Sometimes you have to be your own friend and you're capable of doing that. You never feel bored because if there's nothing going on, you can self-adjust. That's the best thing. You're never just one personality. In fact, you might show the characteristics of an extrovert one minute and then be completely introverted the next.
This is for the people who never know what to say when someone says, "are you an introvert or an extrovert?" because you're definitely a little bit of both and you never can decide which one you're more like. You're an ambivert. There's nothing wrong with having a diverse personality.
