Introversion and shyness are different concepts.
I’ve written about this. Many, many other bloggers have written about this. Susan Cain even mentioned this in her TED talk that has over 10 million views.
And yet shy is exactly how three prominent online dictionaries have defined “introvert.”
Introvert Dear and I are partnering up and launching a petition to ask Google, Dictionary.com, Oxford Dictionary, and Cambridge Online Dictionaries to change their definition of introvert. Not only are their definitions hurtful, but they’re also inaccurate.
We’d like Google, and the online dictionaries listed above, to change their definition to:
An introvert is someone who has a preference for minimally stimulating environments, due to a difference in the way sensory input is processed in the introvert’s brain.
Introverts have a preference for low stimulation environments. Shyness is the fear of a negative social reaction. Not all introverts are shy. And not all shy people are introverts (there’s plenty of shy extroverts).
Join me and Jenn Granneman from Introvert Dear, and in telling these dictionaries that their definition of introvert is wrong by signing this petition.
Sign this petition asking Google and other dictionaries to change their definition of the word “introvert.”
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