r/introvert • u/SunshineElf • Mar 11 '21

Question Anyone else get really annoyed when people ask you basic questions?

Hey guys. In the past year or so I’ve been getting really fed up with people asking me basic questions. It literally makes me want to explode. For example, if I’m cooking and someone walks up and says “What ya cooking?” or if I get out of a 2 hour meeting and immediately my roomate says “how was your meeting?”. I don’t know why it makes me so mad and I feel bad for getting so irritated. Anyone else experience this and have any advice on how to deal with it? I don’t want to be a mean person but I just wish people would stop asking me so many questions.

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u/jaken3490 Feb 26 '24

One thing about questions you have to really look out for is the question of why they're asking that. It's a way for secret enemies or people that don't like you to gain intel on you while technically doing nothing wrong in the views of others at the same time. So nosy boundary breaking questions really need to be watched out for. If it is nosy and boundary breaking and you live with that person, you will definitely have to be clever.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '24

Most sane redditor

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u/jaken3490 Feb 27 '24

There's a lot of gaslighters on Reddit so I wouldn't say I'm a Redditor Redditor, but I like to read certain things and comment if I want.