Is it normal that i physically cannot handle being around my family?

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I'm an introvert, so I need to be alone to be able to fully relax. I love being around my friends, of course, and most of them don't exhaust me the way most social interaction does. I think it's because I trust them so much.

However, I absolutely HATE being around my family. It's gotten to the point where even if I'm alone in my room [in the basement, when most of my family stays two floors above me] I can't relax. Not as long as there is anyone in the house with me. It's exhausting. I have to leave the house just to feel alone, and my favorite, most relaxing thing to do right now is take an hour-long drive to the nearest big city [which I can't do very much because of gas prices].

As far as I know, it's normal for introverts to dislike prolonged interaction with other people, because it's exhausting. But my own family? Especially when I can almost recharge when I'm around my friends? Maybe it's just because I hate my family regardless of whether they're near me or not.

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  • purple1498
    10 years ago

    I hate my family so you're not alone!

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  • ObsessedWithReedus
    10 years ago

    Im the same way! I try and stay as far away from my family as possible... Introverts unite!

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  • SillyKitty55
    10 years ago

    I cannot be in the same room as anyone in my family except my siblings. My sibling(4 of us) are extremely close because we have grown up together, been through hard times together. We went through everything together, never alone, so we are all best friends. How ever my mom and dad....I also cannot be in the same room as both of them. I mean my mom came over to my apartment last night, and she cleaned it for me......then she cut my hair, and then she cleaned my hair. I mean geee my mom is insane sometimes! She cut my hair too short so I was cussing and screaming at her. I had to stop because my daughter started crying because she doesn't ever, ever see this side of me when I get that angry with any one! So i just stopped screaming and took a stupid shower. Than after my mom took my daughter for an over night stay with her at her house, and that was that.
    Usually my mom screams at me and argues with me, and insults me. Hence why I never go over to visit her.

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  • Justsomejerk
    10 years ago

    Line the basement with layers of al-foil.

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  • Shrunk
    10 years ago

    I'm like that but not around parents.. sadly my parents are like my only friends, they are the only people i feel comfortable talking to... but with other family (like grandparents, aunts & uncles etc.) i feel so awkward, luckily they are the type who like to spoil us with fancy alcoholic drinks, bad as that may sound, i dont get drunk, just enough to feel normal around them
    but why do you hate your family? :(

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  • bodazzy
    10 years ago

    it goes like you're interested to be around people when you get to know them but it comes to a point where you say 'okay stay away from me'

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