#extrovert privilege

Every job I ever get, every class I ever took, and any other group I’ve been arbitrarily thrown into results the same. I’m quiet and reserved because I’m introverted and have social anxiety. The average person doesn’t like these traits, and judges those who don’t want to sit around and chit-chat all damn day while trying to do work.

Then, when it comes time for my evaluation, it’ll note that I’m “not a team player” or that I wasn’t “friendly enough.”

So, in other words, “You don’t deserve a job because you don’t know how to be casually trusting and open with people you barely know.”

there are extroverts who get scared of strangers

extroverts can’t magically “talk their way out of anything” because we prefer to be around people 

extroverts can’t just get a job anywhere that requires talking to people because we aren’t masters of rhetoric or sales trick we just like being around other people

not much really ever

Most of my weekends are spent inside, trying to get even further inside, so deep inside that if someone were to search for me, she might find a dimming lamp and a warm spot on the couch where I sat and drew or nothing, nothing at all. And I’m okay with this. Most days, I’m really, really fine, like I’ve told you a million times. Thirteen stories down, there’s a pool and a recreation room where…