Introverts Aren’t Always Quiet. Sometimes We Just Need the Right Circumstances.
Sometimes being quiet is a fixed trait, while other times, it fluctuates with the perceived emotional safety and energy of the room.
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Sometimes, it feels like the world doesn’t “get” you — especially if you’re an introvert. But we’re fellow “quiet ones,” so we get it. Here are some of our favorite stories about what it’s like being an introvert.
Sometimes being quiet is a fixed trait, while other times, it fluctuates with the perceived emotional safety and energy of the room.
For introverts, books provide the perfect escape — you can “go out” into another world while staying in.
I used to think introversion was something that needed to be “fixed.” But I was wrong — and finally stopped pretending to be an extrovert.
For highly sensitive introverts, the idiom, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” is not true.
One of these fictitious things could be an introvert’s saving grace to escape a social situation. If only…
For the record, quiet people can be happy, too. So can people who don’t smile and socialize all the time.
If we’ve planned a quiet day at home, it’s annoying for us introverts to have to abandon that for an unplanned outing.
I can’t go back and talk to my younger introverted self — but I can take these phrases and assert myself as an introverted adult.
Introverts are often expected to conform to the extrovert “norm,” like socializing, vs. attending to their own needs, like having alone time.
People often tell me, “You’re not ‘introverted enough’ to be an introvert.” But here’s why they’re wrong.