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You know it's the first week back at school when you feel like yelling at books. That...that made more sense in my head? Well, maybe you're just generally not the happiest and yelling at everything? Or since you're at school, you're sick of being around so many books
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it's clear the ultimate turnout is "Look, he's fixed! He works like a normal human being now!"
Wow. Introverts are eeeevil. Basically: ick. I think this book may have been written by a member of an older generation (like the Baby Boomers), who don't understand that maybe the Internet has opened up a new way of being social. I know that at one point, my Baby Boomer mother told me that my online interactions were hideously antisocial, but I think she has accepted them now. Also, someone should tell this author that these eeeevil introverts form networks with people all over the world.
Oh, and according to the issue of Mental Floss in front of me, the following people qualify as introverts (according to the Myers-Briggs classifications): William Shakespeare, Emily Bronte, Mother Teresa, Thomas Jefferson, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Michael Jordan, Queen Elizabeth II, Carl Jung, and Condoleezza Rice. And of course, these people contributed nothing of importance to Western society, history, or pop culture. No, siree.
Normal young people who spend our lives and make friends in different ways, and contrary to popular belief, generally don't spend our time sadly wishing we were extremely popular, loved by everyone around us, and better than we supposedly are.
THIS. FOREVER. You know how some "grown-ups" believe that all young people want lives like those in 90210 or Gossip Girl? I think that's what they want us to want, and if we don't, we're just bizarre.
I'd vouch for this to be considered a form of discrimination. Just saying.
It probably is, but it doesn't involve skin color, physical ability, or sexuality; therefore it can't be "legitimate." Or so some might say.
Sorry, this sort of thinking just really irks me.
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