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People who haven't really resumed socializing at levels they used to, people who lost the capacity to regulate during interpersonal interactions, people who lost trust in others... I encounter lots of partial returners out there

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[–] iii@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Where do you encounter these people that haven't returned from isolation?

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[–] discomatic@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Me. I'm people.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Avari.

The unwilling elves who refused the great journey!

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No.....he means the ones just staying at home. Not the ones covid killed.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"he means the ones just staying at home. Not the ones covid killed. "

as far as I can tell, yes.

you call people killed by covid "those left behind"?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do you not? Or is this like the sixth sense sort of thing, where they just kinda hang around for you?

......wait, am I bruce willis?

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

judging by your username, you share certain similarities with Bruce Willis.

and he seems to forget who he is these days, so yeah you might actually be Bruce Willis.

no, I've never heard covid victims called "those left behind", that is a rather morbid bit of prose from your part of the world.

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How about: isolastionists?

[–] Atmoro@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I know a person that had been in hospital most of their life so basically a 20 year covid-type of situation but for their own health. They are 24 now, and trying to socialize still even when they didn't learn as a child-teen. I'm trying to help him but don't know what to do since he's such a unique case

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hermits

I feel like the weird one out because lockdown was absolute hell for me. I need my community and my people. I go crazy being stuck inside a small apartment with nothing to do. I'm not fully an extrovert, I do need my alone time, but I also need to be with people I love.

[–] classic@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I can tell that I get a little weird if I'm alone too long. And the time it takes is shorter since covid. I'm assuming from too much time alone during the peak period

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Extraintroverts?

Social Long-Covid?

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Some lost their ability to regulate from everybody else being critically stupid, some see everybody still being dumb about it and aren't gonna play such a transparently stupid game. Some got long covid, the worst outcome of all, the thing you wear a mask to stop.

Multiple causes.

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Petroverts?

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Informed? Did the infection rates start dropping lately?

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[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Overintroverts?

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I call them "my in-laws".

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