Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts

by Susan Cain

I thought that I was supposed to do these things in order to be considered “normal.”

I feel like I just want to be normal. I don’t want to say the wrong thing, and I don’t always say what’s on my mind; I can’t always word it properly.”

“It’s kind of easy for a quiet person to be walked on . . . A lot of people take advantage of that,”

I could get things done in my own quiet way.

“I didn’t want to say that I was introverted,” she recalled. “I felt like it was a negative word.”

introverted kids worry that they won’t be able to make new friends, so they hold on to abusive relationships as long as possible.