Experts: Introverted youth have deep roots for behavior - Yahoo! News: "The attitude that there's something wrong with introverted people is widely shared in society, where fast talk and snap decisions are often valued over listening, deliberation and careful planning. Extroverts seem to rule the world or, at least, the USA, which hasn't elected an introverted president for three decades, since Jimmy Carter.
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'The signals we get from the world agree that extroversion is valued,' says Sanford Cohn, an associate professor in curriculum and instruction at Arizona State University. 'A lot of the messages we get from society have to do with being social, and in order to be social you have to behave a certain way.'
But that is impossible for introverted kids. Raising them isn't easy, particularly if parents, family members, teachers, coaches and other adults don't allow them to be who they are. "
