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child fit if she’d been an <strong>in</strong>trovert herself?Not necessarily. Introverted parentscan face challenges <strong>of</strong> their own.Sometimes pa<strong>in</strong>ful childhood memoriescan get <strong>in</strong> the way.Emily Miller, a cl<strong>in</strong>ical social worker<strong>in</strong> Ann Arbor, Michigan, told me abouta little girl she treated, Ava, whose shynesswas so extreme that it preventedher from mak<strong>in</strong>g friends or from concentrat<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong> class. Recently she sobbedwhen asked to jo<strong>in</strong> a group s<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>front <strong>of</strong> the classroom, and her mother,Sarah, decided to seek Miller’s help.When Miller asked Sarah, a successfulbus<strong>in</strong>ess journalist, to act as a partner<strong>in</strong> Ava’s treatment, Sarah burst <strong>in</strong>totears. She’d been a shy child, too, andfelt guilty that she’d passed on to Avaher terrible burden.“I hide it better now, but I’m still justlike my daughter,” she expla<strong>in</strong>ed. “I697/929

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