Well my hypothesis here is that over 60% of people on ATRL are introverts. But generally European and American society is very extrovert-oriented and sometimes they misunderstand introverts and judge them harshly.
When I was much younger, I didn't know much about my personality, so people would often mistake my "introvertism" for shyness, and I also was convinced that I was shy. But now I understand that I'm not shy, if its necessary I can do good at large social gatherings, its just that I won't get a big satisfaction out of it as an extrovert would.
About extremes, I have a pretty close friend who is very close to being 100, he literally can not be alone for even the shortest period. I just find that incomprehensible
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Originally posted by fabbriche
Introvert. I even suffered from low self-esteem, inferiority complex and social anxiety disorder during my childhood. Am I alone here?
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What you mean by "even"? low self-esteem has nothing to do with being an introvert. Many introverts are just as self-confident if not more as extroverts would be and vice versa. So the concepts of self-esteem and introvertism are not really correlated IMO.
But I take you've improved with self-esteem, right? what helped you?
@ messert
