Hello. Thank you for listening to I'm speaking with Elizabeth West. I am your host, and I am going to be talking with Rachel Lee again, but this time I'm on the hot seat. Rachel is going to be interviewing me about the traits of being an introvert and HSP, which is short for highly Sensitive person and an have and as well as additional traits that I've spoken about on previous episodes, which is being also found out that I'm a manifesting generator in human design. So that's a whole thing. And as well as just realizing that I am a neurodivergent. So I have ADHD tendencies and I haven't been diagnosed yet, but I've been saying it for years. A family member of mine brought it up.

They were like, you've been saying that for, like, the last decade, that you have undiagnosed. So we'll be talking a little bit. Well, really, whatever Rachel wants to ask, but it will be alongside these traits. Thank you very much again, Rachel Lee, for talking. You're going to be interviewing me this time. So I'm on the hot seat.

I'm very excited. I'm excited that I have the pleasure today to interview you because some of these concepts are just ones that have really been on my mind recently. And I know a lot of our conversations, we've touched on them, but I'm really excited to actually get a little bit more background and how you have been introduced to these concepts, how you discovered them. But first, I guess and I know we kind of talked about this in our last interview as well, but I just kind of wanted, like, a brief definition explanation of some of the traits of empath, HSP, ADHD and introversion, just so we have a context.

Okay, so very good. So being an introvert, I'll start off with being an introvert. So an introvert. And this is something that's very interesting because when I found this out back in 2020, which was I found out later in life. So the only difference between an introvert and an extrovert or an extrovert and an introvert is in how we recharge. So extroverts tend to recharge. Well, let me actually back up a little bit. We're all a little bit of both.

Everyone is a little bit extroverted and a little bit introverted. It just depends on we're all on a spectrum. So I'll start off with that because I think a lot of people which and I thought so too, at the time, earlier or throughout my life, that you're either one or the other, but we're actually a little bit of both. So even though I'm more introverted, I'm more of an introvert, I would say the percentage is, like, I think I'm like 60% introverted and 40% extroverted. So I'm still outgoing, but I got to recharge. So that's really the only difference between an extrovert and an introvert, is in how we recharge. So extroverts recharge by being around many people introverts recharge best in smaller groups and in 1-1's and in alone time. And I also like to say that I think about it like your cell phone battery, because some people like to make up about if somebody's more introverted, they like to say, oh, you want to be alone all the time.

And that's actually a myth. We don't need to be alone all the time, right? We just need to be able to recharge when we are at our capacity, everybody's different. Like, you're going to be different than me, my capacity is going to be different than yours. The next introvert, the next introvert, the next introvert.

Because I feel like one of the biggest things I love is sharing alone time, if that makes sense. We can be alone together. You can be doing your thing, I'm doing my thing. But there's no social obligation, there's no pressure. We're just existing in the same space. That is beautiful to me. I love recharging in that space.

That's another thing, too, because I don't know well, saying I don't know, but I mean, society, they feel like I know some people. Like when my family, we know each other so well because we're family, so we can be in the same room and not talk right then certain family members I'm not as close to, so they feel like they have to talk all the time and it's like we don't have to talk. We could just sit here quietly. Both yeah.