I work with a guy who just loves to talk - He would talk all day and do absolutely no work if he had the chance to. I'm not like that. I enjoy a chat, but by personality I struggle to be around people for long periods of time; I need a lot of time to myself. So I have my headphones in at work for like half of the day, partly so I can actually get some fucking work done in between the constant barrages of pointless noise, and partly because I don't want to talk as much as the others in general, and when he can't talk to me he'll go searching for others to talk to and will complain to others about it, and in general the lack of social atmosphere.
Why does he feel the need to do that? Why, just because I need to spend time alone and can't spend 8 and a half hours talking garbage, am I automatically the problem in his eyes?
I like social interaction as much as the next guy, just not for extended periods of time. I'm done with that after a short while and then I like (or need) to go and do something by myself for a while. Why is that so bad or so hard for people to understand?