Extrovert aspies

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Whenever one of these personality quizzes comes up on these boards, it seems like nearly everyone taking them is an introvert. However, I am not. I guess I'm wondering if there is anyone else out there in a similar position.

I like spending a lot of time by myself, it's true, but I like learning new information and getting out of my own head too, which is easier to do when talking to someone else sometimes. Apparently my willingness to do so places me firmly in the "extrovert" category on most personality quizzes I take. It's not like I'm great at being social though, I'm just not shy about it. For example, yesterday I introduced myself to someone who already knew me (we were even facebook friends actually), because I didn't recognize her face and she was in a different context than how I met her before. Even so, I was the one who went up to her and introduced myself. I wanted to meet her because I thought she seemed nice, albeit maybe a little insulted and confused in this context though. haha.

My dad jokes that I am like a catalyst of awkward in a room. Instead of shrinking from awkward moments, I tend to walk right up to them and make them even more awkward, despite good intentions.

Anyone else out there like this? or am I alone?

Extroversion and introversion are not diagnostic traits of autism. All they can do is affect how the core autistic traits present.

There was an extraverted woman in the Aspergers support group I used to attend. While the filters or boundaries typical people have were not there she was a giving genuine nice person.

Me, exactly. I am extroverted, but test as borderline introvert because of my sensory issues.

I did/do not have "appropriate stranger danger". My mom says I was the most happy outgoing baby and toddler. I am near 50 but called "cute" b/c I am eager to meet people and talk to people... and yet it's awkward. I don't have much of a memory for social conversation, so it's actually easier for me to talk to strangers than to people I know. I love to "collect" experiences.

I don't know if I'm introverted or extroverted, so usually people like me are called "ambiverts" (I think that's the word). It is more common in people to be ambiverts. You'll find information about it on Google.

Not a real introvert, more like asocial ambivert with introvert leanings.

.. An asocial who can afford being social, sometimes enough to match an extrovert in terms of means.


I'm not an 'introvert' not because of not able to afford being social (too awkward/too traumatized/too sensitive/too easily tired out/etc..) I'm not really 'reserved' or calm, just indifferent without any underlying reason other than 'it just doesn't register'.
'No social appetite', yet I'd socialize on a whim as opposed to need nor a want to fill.


Or maybe I'm just too weird or too fragmented to decide which am I in a consistent sense.

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I'm not sure what this makes me. I depend on social interaction to keep me stable as without it my mental illnesses are free to run wild and take the opportunity to do so. However if anything resembles a party I cannot go. Huge meetings of people I can deal with but if the label party is there, even if there aren't that many, I will probably end up having a panic attack. I enjoy talking to people though, they make me happy and I tend to pick up things from people very quickly because I pay loads of attention. But despite how fun I find it, it is so incredibly draining in the end.

Just took three online exams. Although I consider myself Extroverted (I could talk to people for hours at a time), I come up as "Ambivert" (but I often spend my time alone).

Extrovert (testyourself) 54%
Introvert (brainfall) 47%
Ambivert subcategories (psychologytoday)
* Sociability 50%
* Need for Space 52%