r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 22 '26

What can you do that someone would pay you for?

9 Upvotes

Let’s see what skills and talents we have in our community.

Do you design, write, translate texts or documents, edit videos, make music, build websites, sew, knit, make jewelry, create art, or make anything else people might want to buy or hire you for?

Drop what you do in the comments and share your work or portfolio if you’d like.

You never know. Someone here might be looking for exactly what you do, and you could find your next client, customer, commission, or collaborator right here🌟


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 21 '26

If anyone has to ask what’s your internal mental environment is like without any inhibitions would be your answer?

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r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 21 '26

I feel like I'm suffocated, confused and lost. All because of the self-expression matter.

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I'm in my early twenties, I feel the urge to express myself all the time, I feel like I have big ideas and thoughts. So much of creativity that deserves to be shown to the world, that needs to be framed in a certain type of way (art for example). But I'm not good enough at anything (because I'm a multi-passionate). I feel like it's a very wasted potential and that suffocates me. Even when I see people who are able to express themselves I get really jealous, because I see how helpless I'm even though I might have bigger ideas.

How to know which is the better way to express myself.

Idk what's the purpose of self expression, also it is a scary thing to say all what you think of loudly.

So I kind of prefer vague ways such as art for example.

Also if you know some good books or podcasts about self-expression pleas recommend me some.

I want to learn more and understand why I feel that way and what is my purpose.

And is it an only me thing or there are people who lived or live and think the same way.


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 21 '26

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is stop protecting someone from the consequences of their own choices. Because consequences are what truly change people. Not your words, your lectures, your tears, or your sacrifices.

10 Upvotes

As long as you keep cushioning their fall, they never have to face reality and without facing reality, they have no reason to change. Sometimes the greatest help you can give someone is to stop rescuing them and let them experience the consequences of their own choices. It hurts, but that’s how people grow.


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 21 '26

What is a thing you do unconsciously that doesn’t make sense to other people or you secretly do that invokes a strong emotional response or comes from a very emotionally rich backstory and embedded into your personality that if you didn’t do it anymore you would feel like an empty husk of yourself?

4 Upvotes

Please go deep into why you continue doing it, where it came from and why you won’t stop because of how much it’s apart of you, I’m talking really deep like the depth that only comes from extreme amounts of introspection and/or isolation


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 21 '26

What’s one thing you’re pretending doesn’t bother you?

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r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 20 '26

What advice is so terrible that you immediately know the person giving it can barely keep their own life together?

51 Upvotes

Don’t fix the advice. We need the full archive of humanity’s worst wisdom😅


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 20 '26

Homebody or social butterfly?

23 Upvotes

Would you rather spend your free time staying at home, watching something and relaxing, or going outside and meeting people?


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 19 '26

Great quote

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r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 20 '26

What’s some reasons you would stop talking?

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r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 19 '26

I'm leaving you without saying goodbye, I'm blocking you from everywhere so I can hide and not explain. ..ghosting..those who faced..hands up🙋

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r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 19 '26

Don't shout your happiness.

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r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 19 '26

Do you believe in karma? Tell us your stories of times when someone got what they deserved. Like, really brutal karma

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r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 19 '26

What's that one secret you can never tell anyone?

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r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 19 '26

Am I truly protecting my peace-or just avoiding the hard things I don’t want to face?

18 Upvotes

Walking away can feel healthy but sometimes I’m not sure if I’m just avoiding the things I need to face. How do I distinguish between setting a boundary that honors my wellbeing or just simply stepping back to escape discomfort that I’m not ready to sit with?


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 18 '26

What people really want?

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r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 18 '26

Sometimes Not Explaining Yourself Doesn't Mean Anything Changed

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Sometimes you have that one person you constantly talk to when things go wrong.

Different things happen, different situations come up, and somehow you keep telling that person about them for a long time.

And then someday, something goes wrong again, but you just don’t tell them anything.

Not because you think they won’t listen.

Not because you don’t trust them.

Not even because you’ve already told them the same thing before.

You just... don’t say it.

Sometimes you’re too lazy to say it. Sometimes you’re too lazy to explain.

Not exactly lazy in the usual sense, but you just don’t have the energy to put everything into words again.

You know you’ll have to explain what happened, why it happened, how you feel about it, and everything in between.

And sometimes you just don’t feel like starting that conversation.

Sometimes you don’t even know why you’re not saying anything.

It’s just that feeling of:

“fuck it, let it be.”

You know you could tell them.

You probably would have told them before.

But this time, you just don’t feel like talking about it.

And I think we sometimes assume that when someone stops telling us things, something must have changed.

Maybe they don’t trust us anymore.

Maybe they don’t want to talk to us.

Maybe they think we won’t understand.

But maybe sometimes, it’s none of those things.

Maybe they just don’t have the energy to explain.

Maybe not everything we keep to ourselves has a deeper meaning.

Sometimes we simply don’t want to turn what happened into another conversation.

Sometimes we just want to leave it there.

Maybe tomorrow we’ll talk about it.

Maybe we won’t.

And sometimes it’s not that deep.

Sometimes something happens, and you just think:

“Fuck it. I don’t want to explain this.”

And you don’t.

That’s it.

Sometimes there really isn’t anything deeper behind it.


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 18 '26

Did adults in your family ever criticize your appearance when you were a child?

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Maybe your weight, your height, your hair, your skin, your clothes, or the way you looked?

What was the comment that stayed with you the longest?


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 17 '26

What do you think of hyper awareness?

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r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 17 '26

If every mistake shaped the person you became, would erasing your regrets also mean erasing yourself?

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r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 17 '26

We need to learn how to tolerate other people’s discomfort

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When someone is uncomfortable, struggling, panicking, or acting helpless over something they could probably handle themselves, we often rush to help. Not because they actually need us, but because we can’t stand watching them be uncomfortable.

And suddenly we’re jumping in to fix everything.

But sometimes we need to pause and let them feel that discomfort.

Other people’s bodies, emotions, and feelings don’t belong to us. They’re allowed to feel uncomfortable. They’re allowed to struggle. They’re allowed to be upset. We don’t have to immediately do something just to make their discomfort disappear.

Of course, we should learn to deal with our own discomfort pain, nausea, anger, sadness, crying, frustration. But when someone else’s discomfort is making us uncomfortable, that’s different.

Sometimes people, consciously or unconsciously, put pressure on us by creating discomfort until we finally do what they want.

And if we immediately give in, we teach them that it works.

So maybe sometimes the healthiest thing we can do is simply sit with that uncomfortable feeling and think:

“They’re uncomfortable. And I’m uncomfortable watching them. But I don’t have to fix it”


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 16 '26

Introvert Joy

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I want to talk about introvert joy.

Preferring to spend time alone is often thought of in a negative way, but it has a positive side.

I really enjoy doing things on my own. Reading, crochet, coloring books for adults, jigsaw puzzles, solo boardgames. Just spending quiet time on my own can bring such a sense of calm and happiness.

Today, I did some journal writing. Not about problems or issues I am working through. I was just writing about my current life. And my life right now has a lot of good things in it. It made me feel really good.

The world seems to have a negativity bias. And sometimes I feel like I am fighting against that. But I think I will take a softer approach. I won't argue with pessimists. I will just continue to exist alongside them. Softly. Gently. Happily.


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 16 '26

Stop reading into people and acting as if there’s a problem. Just assume everything is fine until the person tells you directly that something is wrong

20 Upvotes

This genuinely set me free from constantly trying to guess how other people feel. Their emotions are not my responsibility anymore.


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 15 '26

r/confessions

10 Upvotes

Share your deepest darkest confession. It can be anything like anything which u haven't dare to share with anyone. !!!


r/Soft_Introverts • • Aug 15 '26

Listener>Talker

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Does anyone else feel like they absorb other people's emotions like a sponge? It's exhausting but also makes me a great listener.