I'm sorry but do you hear yourself, "in your element" "marginalized people"? That is a patronizing, offensive, statement right there. I'm afraid that you have been misled in life to believe you fit into a category labeled as "introvert" as if you are somehow beneath others. As if "extroverts" are somehow better than you. I must stop now because I am about to write something I shouldn't. Please don't think less of yourself because you do not talk non-stop about your own life.

Good thread from the original poster.