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I Always Get Asked Why Im So Quiet

Not only do I frequently get asked this, I've had people actually admit to me their prejudices against and issues with quiet people ("I assume quiet people are jerks", "I'm uncomfortable around them", etc.). Although I feel that being quiet is sometimes a flaw, I've never been any other way. I don't believe that a quiet person can ever truly change into a "loud" person, nor should they have to. Quiet people are just one of the many types of people who come with their own set of downsides and positives. No need to write us off. We are harder to get to know, but I think it will be well worth it. :)
SoFine · 46-50, F
1. In your life, you to you is your most important relationship that you will have. Then be at home in you, as you.
2. You will build up your life with these 2 tools, self-love and self-worth. You are the one to complete and validate you.
3. How loud or quite is not an issue at all. It is just a way to get attention or not. Being comfortable in who you are, is more beneficial.
4. You can still get coaching on to extend your voice, if needed in your professional life. Nothing wrong to get help.
5. I did tend to be quite, this way, one can sit back and let the aholes be assholes.
6. You can use the hobbies you have, as a discussion point, to engage and let people know what you are up to. Do you have hobbies? ????

Enjoy your life, it is all up to you.
SW-User
I was thinking about this just an hour ago, quietness is almost always mistaken for sadness, arrogance, aloofness or boredom (at least in my case). It’s really frustrating to be misunderstood all the time, I think extroverts need to have some sense knocked into them. I can’t stand their dumb screeching voices saying “just say something”, “are you okay” or shit like that
SW-User
@SW-User Word.

The conflation of quietness with arrogance or boredom is especially disappointing as I'm not arrogant at all and rarely ever bored. That can be hard to get across when you tend not to say anything unless you have something worth saying.
Serenitree · F
When you find the person with whom you can spend a few minutes or hours, comfortable, in a shared silence, hang on tight. That's a treasure that you stumble upon very rarely.


So many people need constant chitchat or tv or some form of noise going on or they feel as if there is something going on of which they are unaware, and will begin trying to get you to open up about whatever it is.
SW-User
Fuck those loud mouths, always trying to talk to us when we're busy thinking. It's like shut up, I'm thinking and you're interrupting me. My thoughts are more important than your empty yapping about nothing important.
SW-User
I've been a quiet person my whole life. I don't think I've ever met someone who looked down on me for it, though. That's just dumb.
ernestcharles · 70-79, M
People find quietness hard to cope with. I have lived with the same reactions.

 
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