Introversion and Extroversion

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I think people have weird ideas about the concepts of introversion and extroversion.  Like I think people are always trying to collapse them into whether or not someone is shy or has social anxiety, which is just not the same thing. People have also built up all sorts of *attitudes* about these traits making someone somehow inferior or superior, and then somehow conflating the idea of the traits themselves with the connotations different subgroups have for these words.   But the traits themselves have no intrinsic association with value.  It's also untrue that introverts are inherently shy or extroverts are inherently without social anxiety.  Understanding that different people have different styles of socializing is immensely important in building relationships and understanding the dynamics of different relationships.  Like, some people have more of a taste for large boisterous social gatherings than others.  And some people are more tolerant of being alone, while others can find long-term isolation intolerably understimulating.  I don't see how those two statements are even remotely inaccurate in describing the breadth of human experience.  Also understanding that this is a scale and not a binary is helpful.  It's not like everyone is either a 24/7 party animal or solitary forest hermit, no in-between, lol.  Most people wouldn't feel comfortable with either of those extremes.