First Things First: Introductions.

Greetings fellow introverts -and any extroverts who have come to get a glimpse inside an introvert's mind! As my sidebar notes, my name is Hannah and I'm a twenty year-old Psychology student. That's a very brief summary of myself, but as the address and title of this blog suggests, this looks like it's going to be quite a personal blog. And it is because of the future depth of my blog that I have decided to start out with a better description of myself than my sidebar offers -I've also decided to go down the obvious route and explain my reasonings for creating this blog, but that'll come a little later on in this post.

As well as being an indicator for the potential depth of my blog, my address and title tell you quite a lot about me. As they note, I am an introvert. I tend to describe myself as 'a massive introvert' as introversion and extroversion are seen as a spectrum and I have a great deal of introverted traits and barely any extroverted one. These traits include all the typical things: watchful, soft-spoken, mellow, a good listener, I enjoy being by myself and I dislike conflict and risk-taking. But on top of being 'a massive introvert' I'm also incredibly shy; shy to the point where I've crossed over into Social Anxiety Disorder territory. To a lot of you, reading that won't be a surprise as introversion and shyness/SAD are often deemed to have a hand-in-hand relationship.

Moving slightly away from my personality but staying on the topic of introducing myself, I'm an animal lover. In all my twenty -almost twenty-one years- I've had more favourite animals than I can recall. But after years of trying to decided I've concluded that instead of a favourite animal I have a top three (Cats, meerkats and dolphins for any of you who are interested). Relating to this point, I feel the need to declare that I'm a cat lady. I know some of you out their are dog lovers and I totally respect that. I like dogs as much as the next person, but they're just not quite as good as cats in my eyes.

Going on from animals before I get too into singing the praises of cats, I'm also a bookworm and a music and film fanatic. There's little I enjoy more than either a night in with a good book, a night out at a concert, or a night getting way too emotionally involved in a film. And to top my introduction off, I am without a shadow of a doubt a truly, hopeless romantic. I personally blame my love of films and books for this, as there's nothing that makes my heart swoon as much as grand romantic gestures and mutual, undying love -not that I've had either happen to me yet, but a girl can live in hope. The hopeless romantic in me, who has watched more than her fair share of Disney films, cannot wait until the day a man looks at me the way all Disney prince's look at the princess.

Seriously, who doesn't want their partner to look at them like that?!

I think that's a detailed enough insight into myself, so let's move onto why I decided to create this blog specifically.

I decided to start this blog after reading Quiet by Susan Cain -well actually I'm halfway through as I type this. If you have not already heard about this book, and are yourself an introvert, or at least think you are, then I really, really recommend you get this book. The book's purpose is to show that introverts are incredibly underrated individuals. The world we live in today loves extroverts; it gives us the mindset that if you want to get anyway in life you need to be an extrovert, and if you're not an extrovert then you need to pretend to be one. But you don't, and that's why I love this book so much, even though I've not even finished it yet. Firstly it helps you identify traits within yourself, and secondly it helps you to embrace them, by showing you just how useful these traits are to the world, even though it seems like the world denies it.

Quiet has left such an impression on me already, that I thought I would try to do something on a smaller, less brilliant, scale. And that is why I'm here. I'm here because I want to share my introverted experiences with the world. I want extroverts to understand how introverts see the world and what goes on inside the mind of an introvert; and I want to reassure other introverts out there that there is absolutely nothing wrong with them the way that they are and that they aren't the only ones who think and act the way they do.

Because of those aims I really want to encourage the input of any readers I gain as my blog begins and progresses. If I write a post that you can really relate to, then let me know in the comments; I'd love to know! If you've got a question about something I've mentioned in a post, then please do feel free to ask, I'll respond as best as I can. General feedback on either a post or my blog is great and appreciated too!

Also, as a little disclaimer: as of right now I don't plan to have a blogging schedule, so I highly doubt my blogging will be as consistent as other, much more popular blogs. But as my blog progresses and develops that may very well change. I truly hope that my current lack of a blogging schedule doesn't put you off from following my blog. I'd love for you to read about my introverted experiences and share your own with me.

What I ask of you now in the fetus stages of my blog is to stick with me, at least for a little while, so we can both see how things go and make this blog better together.

Thank you for taking the time to read all of this,
-Hannah. :)