Introverts Are Not Psychos Waiting To Snap

Ever notice that when someone snaps and a horrible crime ensues, the ratings-hungry news stations will focus a lot of time on their social status? They’ll hunt down everyone that ever came remotely in contact with the ‘deranged’ person for an in-depth look into their life. And in a lot of these cases, the interviewees (who may have only made eye contact – once - with said person) will ramble on and on and on about what a loner ‘Mr. Deranged’ was; that he was so quiet and kept to himself. Because, you know, being quiet and keeping to yourself is a sure sign that you are eventually going to snap and go psycho.

Personally, I find it a little unnerving how the media puts so much emphasis on social status instead of concentrating on actual causes (or moving onto other news). Because the public gets fixated on these bits of information, and before you know it, every neighbour, co-worker or acquaintance that is quiet and keeps to themselves is labeled as peculiar and socially inept; a potential walking time bomb of gun-toting, knife-wielding, bomb-tossing madness. Which pretty much covers all introverts who are “quiet” and “keep to themselves”.

So, be on your guard, folks, ‘cause according to this ideology, as much as 1/3 of the world’s population just might go psycho on you one day.

And that includes me.

*snort*