I wondered about all the fuss about introversion for a while -- until I saw the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary definition of introversion. Their first substantive definition of introversion makes it sound like introverts are self-absorbed navel-gazers. It says that introversion is
I know introverts. Heck, I am an introvert, and this just seems wrong to me. Perhaps this is some kind of mistake made by someone writing about something they know nothing about, but it really brought home how much introverts are misunderstood in modern Western culture. So I made a bibliography of resources to help introverts (and those who love them) in dealing with their introversion.the state of or tendency toward being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in one's own mental life.
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