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Originally Posted by Spiritual  It's a current trend to have all the introverts convert to extravert |
If this is a trend, then it has lasted at least a few decades, because nobody liked me to be shy and quiet the way I was back in the 80's either. This varies from country to country. I was in the U.S. In other countries, people are more accepting of me how I am. Once you are in an accepting environment, too, you start to feel a bit safe to come out of your shell.
My introversion has to be mixed up with my shyness, I don't know to what extent. Anyway, I never have the problem you mentioned about people getting fidgety trying to think of things to say, because I also have a cloak of invisibility, so it seems people, especially loud ones, can't see me
. Even sometimes when I try to talk, I'm not heard, people talk over me, my voice isn't loud enough.
I have always quite liked my shyness, and people trying to change me to be more social only made me want to stay the way I was even more. For some reason, quiet people are treated like they have some disorder that needs to be fixed, so they should to fight against not talking to others. Me, I just felt that someone who wants to get to know me can take me aside and talk heart-to-heart with me, not all of this loud, superficial chattering and the walls of personality. That was never me. I once wrote a poem about it ...
Nobody ever did want to get to know me.