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Dear Introvert. I don’t know if you need to hear it, but you are not broken for being the way you are. You have been called quiet. Shy. Urged to “come out of your shell,” raise your hand, be more social, go more places, do more things. To speak up, connect, to participate. As though the only way to participate in being a human is out loud, face-to-face. As though if you just changed this tiny little thing of your entire personality, then you’d really thrive. This is wrong. You do not need to become louder or more sociable or to meet other people where they are in order to be whole or worthy. To live a fulfilling life. You are not less because you’re quiet. You’re not faulty because you like being alone. You are not flawed because you’d rather dream in the dark than dance in the light. You do not need fixing. You are not broken.