How do I explain it to you? Yes they can. I’ll try to explain it to you simply.

Extroverts are people that gain energy from social interaction. They become more active around other people. You feel more awake and energized.

Social Anxiety is characterized by emotional distress or uneasiness about social interaction. It can be extreme self-consciousness or weariness about being judged, watched, or criticized.

The two things are not mutually exclusive. It is possible to gain energy from being around other people and still be anxious about actually interacting with them.

This website has bastardized what extroversion is and tend to abuse extroverts for just being extroverts. They believe they can’t be anxious, they can never feel awkward, they are always happy and can never have any emotions negative emotions or feelings, and they can never have any deep thoughts because of any of this. They can never understand how introverted people feel and, extending from that, they don’t know how to leave introvert people alone. 

It is extremely damaging to any extroverted person. After coming on this website, it actually took me a while to feel okay with myself because of how introverted people are made out to be special people. They are the only ones who can experience mental illness and the only way to experience it is the introverted way. I felt like maybe how I was feeling was wrong and I didn’t even tell anybody about it because I worried about being laughed at and told that was impossible (which did in fact happen).