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Originally Posted by Redway

Gotcha. One thing that annoys me a lot is when people meme-ify introversion as social anxiety, shyness, lacking in basic social skills or (when there’s a bit more cue-awkwardness to it) autism and that doesn’t help with people understanding the fact that introversion and extraversion (in a social-dimensional sense, not even the full Jungian/Myers-Briggs-y sense) are just equally normal poles on a continuum that both have their pros and cons. No-one’s 100% either anyway but contemporary Western society is quicker to lump normal (social) introversion with social anxiety, autism and incipient depression more than extraversion and the pathological/neuro-atypical equivalents of that (A.D.H.D., grandiose narcissism, mania). We don’t tend to inherently value people who want to be alone as much or understand the fact that your typical ego-syntonic introvert is no more socially anxious or on the spectrum than an extrovert who can’t sit still unless they’re actively engaged in something social is ADHD or on the brink of hypomania. Treating introversion as a mental illness doesn’t help anyone, whether they’re neurotypical or not.

It’s a complex issue for sure ..

On balance I guess I wouldn’t change too much about myself .. I do enjoy certain aspects

.. I love being obsessed with so many different things like music / football and various other sports , movies , snakes / animals and a few other things …the majority of autistic folk seem to only get to have one obsession

The only snag is I don’t really have enough hours in my days … luckily I only need 4 to 5 hours sleep each night .




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