{"id":38564,"date":"2013-08-24T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/24\/so-why-all-the-introvert-love-of-late.html"},"modified":"2013-08-24T10:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T16:50:43","slug":"so-why-all-the-introvert-love-of-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/24\/so-why-all-the-introvert-love-of-late.html","title":{"rendered":"So, why all the Introvert Love of late?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Doyce notes — with some accuracy — an upsurge in "Here's how to know you're an Introvert (and, actually, that's okay)" quizzes and articles on the Internet of late.<\/p>\n

I'm not sure it's actually all that<\/i> new. \u00a0Looking back on my blog at some of the "Personality Tests" from way back when there was something of a theme there, too.<\/p>\n

My hunch about any particular present upsurge is that it's part of the broader meme of, "Hey, geeks\/nerds are cool and, actually, in charge of the world now." \u00a0Part of that is a conflation of geeks\/nerds with introverts — \u00a0which is demonstrably untrue in at least a minority of cases, but has a certain amount of plausibility, since most of the geek\/nerd friends I've had have been introverts (or at least been socially isolated from the rest of the herd, which isn't necessarily the same thing, but work with me here), while the hated football-swilling, noogie-administering, BMOC-swaggering jock types were all clearly extroverts …<\/p>\n

(Note: see the article, which is tongue-in-cheek, but plays beautifully into the "extroversion is normal,<\/i> Freakazoid, and, what's that you're doing, reading a book,<\/i> Poindexter?" old school stereotypes.)<\/p>\n

So since geeks\/nerds now rule (yay, Internet!), then maybe now, for one brief moment in human history, everyone wants to be an introvert. And since the term geek, nerd, and introvert is open to wide application, well, that makes it easy to do. \u00a0Yay, tribe!<\/p>\n

Now, I do have some quasi-legit basis for saying that I have introvertish features (I usually peg out the "I" on the Meyers-Brigg so hard it drills a hole in the paper), and nobody'd better claim I don't have geek\/nerd cred (here's my Geek Code CV, if you want to know, and if you don't agree, I shall taunt you a second time). \u00a0<\/p>\n

But I'm also not one of those who (well, not without an ironic self-deprecating smile) longs for the day when it was all a more exclusive club (no, I really don't — and I think it both wildly cool and<\/i> a bit wistful that, from a geek\/nerd perspective, Kay and all her friends and<\/i> a goodly percentage of her friends' parents are into "Doctor Who").<\/p>\n

Anyway, yay, Introverts! \u00a0We're here, we're full of fear, and we're not going away. \u00a0Actually, we'll be over there in a small huddle congratulating ourselves on not being so loud and, maybe, if that overlap thing is true, speculating on Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor and how John Hurt fits into the occasion, but don't worry, we'll probably shut up about it if you come over and want to watch the football game on TV, at least until the Revolution comes …<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Doyce Testerman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I've nothing at all against introverts.<\/p>\n

… I might have something against the spiral of Introvert Quizzes going around the last couple weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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15 Unmistakable, Outrageously Secret Signs You’re an Extrovert<\/a>
\n In recent weeks, introverts have been receiving a lot of attention on the internet, which they hate. Just kidding–they love attention! Talking about, reading about, and Facebook-sharing about introverts are an introvert\u2019s favorite things to do.\n <\/p>\n

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Doyce notes — with some accuracy — an upsurge in "Here's how to know you're an Introvert (and, actually, that's okay)" quizzes and articles on the Internet of late. 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