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Introvert Shaming: How to Face the Fear of Being Boring for people with Social Anxiety

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Channel: MyNonLeatherLife · 2018 · Entertainment

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One of my biggest fears when meeting people and connecting with friends is that they would think I was BORING, BLAND, DULL, DIM, LOW ENERGY, NOTHING 2 SAY. In fact I once told my friend my ultimate fear about how I was truly boring inside and she was like WTF? You aren't boring. And yet I feared being extremely boring to everyone I encountered. 

I realize now I had reason to fear. People DO see me as boring. Introvert Shaming exists. Extroverts DO completely misunderstand the calm outer facade of introverts and assume they are boring, bad in bed, low energy, and bland. Introverts know nothing could be further from the truth. Introverts are teeming with sensitivity, passion, fantasy, deep thoughts, poetry, sensuality etc. Yet many lack the understanding to grasp the concept of a calm exterior and a stormy interior. 

Ignorant people. I encounter them everywhere. I accept them everywhere. Knowing that they misunderstand human nature. As Marcus Aurelius said: 

“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.”


― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations


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