マット・マクゴリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (マット・マクゴリーInstagram)「Reading the article “Social Distancing Is a Good Time To Learn What Introversion Is and Isn’t” by Sherronda J. Brown ( @4loveandnappyness ) on @wearyourvoice (highly recommend both accounts!) blew my mind. It revealed some truths about myself that I’m continuing to explore. As an introvert, I have MUCH less social battery than usual and therefore need much more solo/phone-off time to recharge. It has required very strong boundaries. Below are some poignant excerpts, but I highly recommend the whole article. # “I don’t have more social battery now than I did before this pandemic. Truth be told, I have even less. People who aren’t introverts don’t seem to understand this though.” # “Introverts hear these same myths and we often internalize them, unfortunately. Many of us grow up thinking that something is fundamentally wrong with us and the way that we naturally exist in the world, so we find ways to push ourselves outside of our comforts and even have our boundaries repeatedly violated for the sake of extrovert comforts. We do it on an almost daily basis—in academic, professional, religious, recreational, and otherwise social settings—because this world demands it as proof of morality, intelligence, competence, health, stability, and humanness.“ # “It’s easy to understand why this means that extroverts will have a very difficult time with many aspects of something like social distancing. They are starved for the kind of stimulation that is a normalized part of their daily life, and many of them don’t seem to understand that they have pretty much always had the privilege to embrace their natural temperament without being overwhelmingly ostracized for it. Nor do they understand that introverts have had to learn how to perform it for our own survival and to our own detriment.” # Introverts are never required to be readily available and accessible to others, even when we are choosing to do absolutely nothing. We are not here to entertain others who assume that we have nothing better to do because they think that all we do is sit around and stare at the wall. Our needs are not less important during social distancing just because the world is designed for extroverts.”」7月16日 4時38分