What do you call someone who wants to be by themselves, but wants others to show they care [closed]
Solution 1:
There are lots of words for wanting to be [completely] alone, some with negative connotations but many without. My preference for those would be withdrawn
However, there is, between introvert and extrovert, ambivert
noun
plural noun: ambiverts
a person who has a balance of extrovert and introvert features in their personality.
(Google)
coined by Kimball Young in "Source Book for Social Psychology" (1927)
according to etymonline.com
Maybe that would be appropriate here (if we regard introvert as too withdrawn).