A few years ago, there was a drive to stop marginalising introverts or demanding that they not be pressured to change & I liked it at first
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Reminds me of 'It's OK to be gay coz they can't help it' arguments. No, it's OK to be gay coz that's who people are & it doesn't affect you
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It's also OK to be introverted, shy, reserved, private, socially awkward, lack filters or whatever without any kind of diagnosis,
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If we go down the ableism route to justify ppl's right not to meet requirements of a socially & politically engaged, articulate extrovert
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we necessarily define this is the correctly-functioning human at the same time as making it a moral obligation.
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So many of these supposedly complex ethical social problems can be solved by 'Just accept people as they are if they're not hurting you.'
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that's giving up on utopia, and when one believes the world started when one's arrived, that choice doesn't even occur.
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