Hi fellow introverts! I'm definitely happiest with less people around me. Of course I do have a need for human interaction, but it's with my close friends. I dislike small talk and large crowds, and I'm content with a book or an art project in front of me and no one else's company but my dog's.
I've always felt very susceptible to other ppl's energy, and very intuitive, if that has anything to do with it. Like a sponge, I take it all in, the good and the bad. And it can be exhausting. It wasn't until a couple years ago I was browsing around Pinterest and saw a board with lots of quotes about being an introvert, and thought, that's ME. I felt almost...relieved? Validated? To know there wasn't anything WRONG with me (I so get that feeling of being alone in a group of ppl or feeling like the black sheep) and it was actually a thing. Learning about the Meyers Briggs personality types was really interesting to me too.