My deer in the headlights look…

I’m sitting here at my work desk wondering why we’re all so obsessed with our introversion (well, you might not be, but I must be – I mean, look what I’m doing). Do extroverts obsess over being extroverted? I doubt that they think about it. I’m pretty sure they don’t wonder about it, because after all, it’s “normal”. No one wonders about the “normal” stuff, like a growling stomach, or an aversion to cleaning out the cat litter box. But we wonder about the abnormal stuff – like enjoying liverwurst (I seriously wonder about people who enjoy liverwurst), or introversion (run for the hills, it’s an introvert!).

I can’t tell you how many times in my own life being introverted has upset me – not because of what it is, but because I didn’t understand it, or didn’t appreciate it, or didn’t assert myself as a perfectly normal person who wants to live a perfectly normal life (for her).

We’ve all been there. Some of us are still there. Some of us visit there for special occasions, like the holidays when everyone and their brother gets offended if you don’t come to their party.

I don’t know what to do about it. There’s nothing wrong with us. There’s nothing wrong with them. It’s a matter of differences and degrees of differences, but it’s all OK.

Lately, my life isn’t too bad as an introvert. Mostly because I’ve pounded it (via this blog and that book) into everyone’s head that I’m me and I don’t like to be in the middle of your noise, chaos, party, conversation, phone call or three-legged race (except on certain very rare occasions).

And the people in my life that don’t get it have just given up on me. As a certain female relative said, “I read the blog and parts of the book, and I still don’t get it”. But she’s given up with the questions about why I’m so weird.

Is that what it comes down to? Having people just give up on trying to convert us? Or us trying to convert ourselves? Or us trying to get them to “get it” (would that be called a counter-conversion)? Why are humans so hung up on differences?

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