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Fiona is the founder of Introvrs (introvrs.com), an app in private beta built for introverts looking for genuine friendship without the performance pressure of mainstream social apps. She writes about connection, introversion, and the gap between how we're told to socialize and how we actually thrive.

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If You Feel Lonely Around People, Here’s Why

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“The loneliness of the connected age is not about being alone. It’s about being unseen in a crowd.” ~Unknown

For a long time I thought I was broken.

Not in a dramatic way. In a quiet, persistent way—the kind you learn to manage so well that most people can’t tell, and eventually you almost can’t tell either.

I had a full life by any external measure. Work I cared about. People around me. Invitations to things. And yet there was this gap I couldn’t close—a feeling I can only describe as being on the wrong side of glass. Present in …