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I Object to the Concepts of Introversion and Extroversion

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Made-up psychological frameworks rule everything around me

I used to think I was introverted. Though I was always chatty, it used to take me a long time to recover from social activity. I deeply desired the company of others, but it exhausted me, sometimes for days, sometimes for weeks. I’d need to skulk in sullen silence after any conversation that was more than brief. Which is one definition of introversion, right? But it gets tricky when you zoom in a little bit, and examine the nature of the exhaustion. Social activity didn’t drain me because it took a kind of energy out of me, like exercise would. It drained me because I was ashamed of myself.…

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