There's also a thing called schizoid personality that about 1% of people have. Maybe "proud introverts" of this article are mostly that. The name schizoid soun

There's also a thing called schizoid personality that about 1% of people have. Maybe "proud introverts" of this article are mostly that. The name schizoid sounds terrible but it's basically self sufficiency and reduced need for real world human contact. This enables evaluating opportunity of each one on its merits and for people who had prior bad experiences might result in avoidance of almost all human contact. Since there's no emotional cost of that such people can be pretty shameless about it. Hence connotation of "proud" and antipathy from non-schizoid people like the author of this article. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorde...