7 of 20

Write now Article Tools

What's worse: being smothered or recognizing that others don't care?

Every introvert has heard this phrase in one way or another: "You'll never be happy unless you socialize with others!" And, for an extrovert's world, this is a completely logical mantra. After all, the consensus is that "humans are social beings," and when one has that kind of science behind it (the science of public opinion), it's easy to see why introverts get trampled.

The challenge of being an introvert is not simply that one is deprived of his needed personal, quiet space, but the accompanying fact that people don't realize or care that a person might want this space. To clarify, not only do extroverts want to constantly talk, socialize, or just 'hang out,' the introvert who actively rejects these activities is weird, unnatural, and antisocial. Of course, the much more prominent extroverts can set the doctrine on the matter, so introversion, instead of being a normal alternative to extroversion, becomes demonized as a fringe, peculiar thing for the mentally or socially deficient.

That is the challenge of being an introvert: people think there is something inherently wrong with not wanting to be around others. It is something foreign that they can't wrap their minds around, so they fear it, or worse, reject it.

Living in the extrovert's world has so many disadvantages: how can it not when societies have maxims that go "The squeaky wheel gets the grease"?

Learn more about this author, Jack Roviere.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.

Add your voice

Know something about Challenges of being an introvert?
We want to hear your view. Write now!