I'll just wait until my social battery is recharged enough

What about my parents, though?
- Your parents also like me.
Speak for yourself, if someone ghosts me like that twice, I'm quite done with them. I am an introvert and I take the time at least once a day to reply to all messages from people I care about. Which's like 3.

Or social anxiety which is the special kind of purgatory where you constantly rethink about how you're going to reply but don't actually do it and the more time that passes the worse it gets...

My goal is to greet everyone in the morning at my new job.
I'm liked well enough for my knowledge and how hard I work at my current position, but I was still shell shocked from quarantine when I started and avoided eye contact and conversation.
At this point I'm fairly certain everyone thinks I'm differently abled.
Maybe I am.
"Ah, now I didn't reply for a full day, they must hate me now replying is too scary. But I really need to. I'll do it tomorrow, surely"
"Oh god now it's been two days I'm sure they will never want to talk to me ever again nope nope"
Repeat until I somehow manage eventually
this is so energy consuming that it convinced me to make a habit of taking care of social chores as quickly as possible and live the rest of my time in peace.

This has nothing to do with introversion. This is social anxiety.

Eh, I'm an introvert who isn't overly socially anxious, and I'll often ignore texts for a bit if I'm really not feeling up to doing whatever it is at the moment. But I usually get to it the next day or the one after. I don't like talking to people, but I don't feel very apprehensive about it either, I just find it draining and prefer to avoid it.
Usually I'll just say, "today isn't great for me, I'll get back to you." Then actually get back when I'm more interested in social interaction. I don't feel awkward about forgetting for a couple days, certainly not to the point of ghosting someone for weeks.
Or a lack of social understanding.

Yeah pretty much

yup.
i'll often ask them to call me later or next week or whatever. so i don't have to try to remember. because i probably won't.
- Me too
  Just be like "hey call me later i'm "busy" rn"

No, because I don't have anymore friends because of exactly this. Self-solving problem on a long enough timescale.

I'm getting old and sometimes, only sometimes, i think i created other problems this way. I mean, when i get really, really old, it will be pretty lonesome and if i fall in the kitchen and need help, who you gonna call?
Sure, i would call the emergency, AFTER the not existing friend came by and took care of any weed lying around. Just in case.
- If you make it that old it will be more likely that all your friends died from old age anyway

That's not introversion, that's procrastination.

procrastination is the tool, introversion is the root cause

I think I have unanswered texts from like 8 years ago.

When you don't want to be awkward so you just assume your not friends unless they reach out again.

this is depression not introvertion

It can be both
- It is both \o/

Same, but only with replying to English speaking peoples. It’s exhausting to find correct words, look if some words weren’t skipped, make sure message doesn’t sound weird. When it comes to native language, I reply quite fast

Yeah. Feel this one hard but because of ADHD.

Actually, i have no problems with texting. It's the meeting in person that i find tiring

This just reminded me I didn't reply to a message so did some damage control now. Thanks!

Me

ahem… horrible son. Hi mom!

when my social lights are out they turn them on again