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People who make personality-pervading judgements about people based on nothing but their vis-a-vis social demeanour, especially when they’ve only ever seen the person in motion with people that they’re not terribly comfortable with. You’re obviously not going to see the real them when more of their personality is directed inwards rather than outwards and they’re not even comfortable to begin with. Comfort is everything for the average introvert. Mistaking situational awkwardness or silence with someone’s whole personality is never a good thing. Still waters run deep. And there’s often a world of immense emotional and intellectual depth beneath the surface. You just need to get to know them in themselves, and some people never will, because they never utilised the opportunity to. You … don’t get to see it in random passing or from the undifferentiated outside looking in. You get it through time, trust, comfort, nuance and maybe the odd questionnaire or two on Snapchat. Otherwise your knowledge of them might be 0.1% and nowt more. It always pays to respect the complexity of the inner world.