Yeah, I'd say introversion can have debilitating/disabling downsides (especially for younger people, from my own experience), but also a few powerful upsides wh

Yeah, I'd say introversion can have debilitating/disabling downsides (especially for younger people, from my own experience), but also a few powerful upsides when it comes to information processing and focused cognition. I don't really identify with the accepted negative remarks against introverts, though. The closest I can comment on is the perpetual "why are you so antisocial" line from childhood through adulthood, which is simultaneously infuriating and isolating. Children and young adults that are introverted are almost always constantly cajoled frequently to "be more social", and, of course, it's to their detriment to be so frequently indirectly reminded that they are outsiders. Of course, introverts are almost always going to be at a disadvantage in social skills, popularity contests, job interviews, etc-- and these things are far more critical to "success" than mere skill or intelligence. I'd say introverts are also usually slightly worse at the skill of having grit, too-- frequently there's something about having to struggle alone that makes failures more final. I imagine there's some great works waiting to be written regarding the experience of introversion from the 1980s to the present. The current crop of hackers are probably the first who have seen society go from viewing them as "antisocial" to "cool nerds".