ICYMI Introvert UpThink 2025
Best wishes for 2026! In this post, I feature my top five Introvert UpThink posts from 2025.
Among the popular acronyms I have to look up every time is ICYMI. Well, maybe writing this post will grind its meaning into my head finally and for all time: It means In Case You Missed It.
Here are five Introvert UpThink posts that I especially enjoyed researching, pondering and writing in 2025, in case you missed them.
1. The Relatability Trap: A Hazard for Introverts – Pause a moment before you compliment something as “relatable.” Perhaps “unrelatable” deserves to be seen as OK, too.
2. How Not to Relate to Your Introverted Kid – A parent really did write to an advice columnist complaining about a young daughter’s avid curiosities and how she only had three friends.
3. Frederick Douglass, Introvert – What if you had had to fight to learn to read, as Frederick Douglass did?
4. Are Introverts Mentally Ill? The Case of Emily Bronte – Is someone mentally unbalanced because they’re hard to get to know – like many introverts?
5. Introverts and “The Barbie Problem” – One thing none of us controls is the expectations in our social world.
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Here’s to 2026 being a better year than 2025!
– Marcia