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Date: July 28, 2012 08:15PM
Later I figured it out on the level of the truthfulness of religion, and learned about the fraud a few years later, but socially TSCC was always torture. At first, I don't think I figured out the damage from the social part, because I never knew where I fit in, and then at YBU, and the UofU I learned was respected by professors. Also, I wanted a Ph.D., so I knew that was the place for me. Still, associating with LD$ was insulting; these people degraded me. I was always aware of the disdain they had for my education, and wanting to discuss things before obeying, having to have reasons, etc.
Thanks, I like the link too. The FAQ's are hilarious.
"Violations of my sense of reality" describes TSCC perfectly. An introvert in the morg is like being left-handed years ago. I do, and perceive things differently, which does not make me a "wrong" person in need of correcting. The morg "reality" is not the "one true way" to view the world, and live.
My way of functioning in the world is just as valid, even if I am a minority. I get peeved at the attacks on science by people who are living off of, and reaping the rewards of science - brought to them by *introverts*. On the bright side, "nerd culture" is becoming more, and more appreciated.
to "AmIDarkNow?" below:
Society in general mistreats introverts, but LD$ culture is far worse.
Caring for Your Introvert: The habits and needs of a little-understood group, By JONATHAN RAUCH
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/03/caring-for-your-introvert/2696/"Are introverts misunderstood? Wildly. That, it appears, is our lot in life. "It is very difficult for an extrovert to understand an introvert," write the education experts Jill D. Burruss and Lisa Kaenzig. (They are also the source of the quotation in the previous paragraph.) Extroverts are easy for introverts to understand, because extroverts spend so much of their time working out who they are in voluble, and frequently inescapable, interaction with other people. They are as inscrutable as puppy dogs. But the street does not run both ways. Extroverts have little or no grasp of introversion. They assume that company, especially their own, is always welcome. They cannot imagine why someone would need to be alone; indeed, they often take umbrage at the suggestion. As often as I have tried to explain the matter to extroverts, I have never sensed that any of them really understood. They listen for a moment and then go back to barking and yipping."
And....
"With their endless appetite for talk and attention, extroverts also dominate social life, so they tend to set expectations. In our extrovertist society, being outgoing is considered normal and therefore desirable, a mark of happiness, confidence, leadership. Extroverts are seen as bighearted, vibrant, warm, empathic. "People person" is a compliment. Introverts are described with words like "guarded," "loner," "reserved," "taciturn," "self-contained," "private"—narrow, ungenerous words, words that suggest emotional parsimony and smallness of personality. Female introverts, I suspect, must suffer especially. In certain circles, particularly in the Midwest, a man can still sometimes get away with being what they used to call a strong and silent type; introverted women, lacking that alternative, are even more likely than men to be perceived as timid, withdrawn, haughty."
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/2012 08:21PM by atheist&happy:-).