Thursday, February 28, 2008

The Introvert's Rights Revolution

I read an article today about "Caring for Your Introvert", in it I found some good material for my pamphlet about me. You see I'm an Introvert. This, for anyone who knows me, comes as no surprise. I had spent many years trying to suppress my introverted nature, just to blend in and get people to finally stop calling me weird. In the process of my suppression I'd lost myself and ended up depressed which isolated me even more than being an introvert ever could. But in a world over populated by extroverts being "depressed" is more acceptable than being an introvert. Depression equates to a "rough patch" in extrovert speak where as being an introvert means your just plain weird, antisocial, and down right rude.
I’ve heard an extrovert go on and on about a fate worse than death when she was mistakenly called an introvert. And as she obsessed on and on about hoe being an introvert was the worse thing in her world to be, I could do nothing but mumble the usual "umhmm" and wait patiently for her to run out of air. For all the energy it takes an introvert to deal with extroverts, a world filled with extroverts, I would like some reciprocity. I would like for extroverts to just shut the hell up and be still for 10 minutes (preferably away from me) before, during, and after conversing with me. Yeah that would be a nice line item to add to the introvert's rights revolution. The right to be silent and left alone without persecution. Let’s get this revolution started!