A Healthy Introvert?

[Plenum]

It's interesting that you have associated introversion with neuroses...what gave you that association?

I guess for me, it's tied into a wider complex of what society considers 'normal'.

I've operated under the burden of expectation for a long time that something was wrong with me because I liked spending time alone doing my thing, and it's not that I disliked people, but rather that I had a hard time vibing with the majority of people and finding a connection. In time, I can see that this indeed was a blockage, with lacking the social skills and confidence to mix; but it was also complicated by the fact that the initial impulse to take time-out was considered as somehow being a dysfunction in itself.

So I had to untangle those two things.

As to the neuroses, and neurotic behaviour, I guess I have given extroverts a pass on that measure, a free pass. Maybe because I wanted to be like them, at some level, and then I would conform to some sense of normality.