Loners

I choose to look at it as a blessing. Of course being an extrovert is also a blessing. It comes down to what you do with it, perhaps?

One more anecdote to round things out. Some 20 years ago my daughter and I were at a shelter in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It was a surreal experience. A kind woman observed my daughter, age 5 at the time, quietly playing with a toy on her own away from the other kids and the woman said to me: "That child will never be lonely. She may be alone, but she's never going to be lonely." She wasn't wrong.

I think being a loner can be a good thing even in instances where trauma plays a precipitating role in one following a loner path.