Extroverts are learning that they can enjoy time without obligations and interactions. And introverts are learning that they are not content simply staying at home.
Extroverts miss them dearly — and many even physically ache for that sensation of intentional touch. They want to hug friends. They want to hug grandchildren. They are even tempted to hug the postal carrier — who, for someintroverts could use a hug right now. Half of the 1,841 ADDitude readers who completed our fifth survey about life during the pandemic identified themselves as introverts.
Overall, 64% of ADDitude readers report feeling anxious, worried, overwhelmed, or exhausted. Sadness was reported by half of all survey respondents, 41% of whom also reported feeling lonely. Even among readers working outside the home, these emotions run like a ribbon through recent survey comments.“I live in a family of 7 and also work as a nurse aide, so I see family, patients and coworkers regularly,” wrote one recent nursing school graduate with ADHD and autism.
“At the beginning of the quarantine, I initiated communication with friends and colleagues, but I’ve given up on that because I now realize how insignificant I feel,” wrote one Maryland mother with ADHD and comorbidities. “I haven’t heard from people at work with whom I thought I had relationships, and I am very sad and probably even bitter about it if I’m being completely honest.”
“I need social interaction more at this time than at any other, and haven’t had any other than online,” wrote one woman with ADHD. “But what counts for me is body contact, hugs and being m in the same room as others. I struggle with and dread phone and video calls.”Even among members of a digital generation, technology is not solving the loneliness problem of social isolation.
“My kids compete every waking second for my attention and feud with each other to get it — interrupting and talking over people, singing loudly and yelling to get attention, and even resorting sometimes to hitting,” wrote one California mother with ADHD and comorbid conditions. “I can’t help one kid or spend time with one, without the other freaking out and interrupting but yet refusing to share their time with me with each other. It’s mentally exhausting.
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