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If you’re an <strong>in</strong>trovert, you also knowthat the bias aga<strong>in</strong>st quiet can causedeep psychic pa<strong>in</strong>. As a child you mighthave overheard your parents apologizefor your shyness. (“Why can’t you bemore like the Kennedy boys?” theCamelot-besotted parents <strong>of</strong> one man I<strong>in</strong>terviewed repeatedly asked him.) Orat school you might have been proddedto <strong>com</strong>e “out <strong>of</strong> your shell”—that noxiousexpression which fails to appreciatethat some animals naturally carryshelter everywhere they go, and thatsome humans are just the same. “Allthe <strong>com</strong>ments from childhood still r<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong> my ears, that I was lazy, stupid,slow, bor<strong>in</strong>g,” writes a member <strong>of</strong> an e-mail list called Introvert Retreat. “Bythe time I was old enough to figure outthat I was simply <strong>in</strong>troverted, it was apart <strong>of</strong> my be<strong>in</strong>g, the assumption thatthere is someth<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>herently wrong38/929

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