Introverts Are Sick of Being Called Boring

It’s as good as anything can be

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I’ve honestly lost count of how many times my shyness has made people think that I’m a boring person or that I have an attitude. I don’t blame them. How are they to know until I speak anyway? People can’t skip judging, be it good or bad. And when you speak the least, you give them fewer things to judge you for. So obviously, their last resort would be to make assumptions.

Often, even for me, it’s envious to see how the extroverts go about talking with everybody. Their absence is physically felt at events. Makes me wonder — Don’t their minds get flooded with thoughts before talking to someone new? Don’t they get exhausted to meet so many people? How do they do it? Why can I not?

Though what bugs me the most is the way extroverts look at us. The way they feel entitled to judge anybody that has a personality unlike theirs.

“No! partying isn’t our thing and neither is having 100000 friends, just let us be.”

We hate small talk, nothing about it is fascinating. And we dig fascination in everything. Doing something for the sake of it, to look cooler or because everybody does it, has never made a home in us. To quote Diane Cameron’s words —

“Introverts crave meaning, so party chitchat…