Introverts Demand Extroverts Listen to Them Talk About Not Wanting to Talk

Pressing their case for greater understanding from extroverts, introverts are demanding that extroverted friends, family members, and colleagues sit silently and endure long monologues about how they do not like to talk.

Vera Kwiet, who leads the nationwide movement, said that every introvert should have the unconditional right to go on and on about needing to recharge their batteries alone and how draining small talk is for them. "Listen, sometimes we have to chew someone's ear off about not wanting our ear chewed off." She continued, "When an introvert wants to hold forth for a bit about not holding forth, the decent thing is to sit there calmly and let us spout off about not wanting to spout."

Other members quickly voiced their agreement. One said, "We love to blab on about not wanting to blab on." And another offered "We like to shoot our mouths off about keeping our mouths shut." While the last said, "Just let an introvert babble on for half an hour about their aversion to babbling. That's all we're asking.” They spoke at length about not wanting to speak at such length.

But many extroverts said enough is enough. "We get it, you don't crave conversation, you don’t have the gift of gab. Stop jabbering about not jabbering," said Gabby Lott, an extrovert. "Why do they feel the need to drone on endlessly about not wanting to drone endlessly?” I mean, ask yourself, do you ever see any extroverts talking to introverts about their love of idle chatter?"

While conceding that extroverts could stand to listen some more, Lott insisted the burden really rests with introverts to lower the volume. “It’s the classic stalemate of ‘silence is golden’ vs ‘the squeaky wheel gets the oil’” Lott said. “But in this case, the wheels can choose to stop their squeaking and then they’d have their golden silence.”