Asking a serious question

Because talking = socializing, and socializing is a core concept in the human brain which evolved with the need for a community to live in, which is easier to do when you socialize with its members. So for our society socializing = good. Not socializing = bad.

And it suuucks ass.

Hey how's it going? No, don't actually tell me how it's going.
Boy... the weather sure is outside! Being alone with my thoughts scares me, so I will make dealing with me your new unpaid job.
- What’d you do this weekend? If it takes more than two sentences to describe it to me I’ll stop caring and just talk about myself. I’m not here to learn about you, just drown out the incessant ticking of my own mortality.

I think it's really ironic when I see these memes, because it highlights how our own heads will highlight the things that grate against our own nerves.

I assume everybody that this resonates with resonates with it because they themselves have been told to go against their nature and wanna know why the other side hasn't.

I'm the other end of that spectrum. I promise you, people told me all that. "Mind your peers. Share the space. Stop being...so much. Learn to be comfortable in silences. What can't you shut the fuck up?"

I have autism, so I didn't understand why I was always screwing it up. I also hated hearing, "Be yourself. People will like you for who you are," because I found that when I stopped trying to mask, I'd immediately hear all of the above all over again.

As somebody with social anxiety, it sounds like your MIL also has social anxiety. Hence, the constant need to have to reinforce that other people can stand her. I had to train this out of myself in my late teens/early 20s.
I know it's annoying to deal with, but showing a little compassion and simply affirming that you're exhausted but her relationship with you is secure will go a long way for her. She'll probably get used to you being quiet around her too.
- Social anxiety + extroversion is its own special hell.

Oh my god, enough already! Please give someone else a chance to reply! You're taking up all the internet space.

Because the worst of us all run everything, and you gotta just deal with it wage slave.

You don't consent to being born. You are forced here and are a prisoner of your living expenses.

I went to an introvert's munch once. It was held at a public library. Everyone just nodded and smiled at each other as they read books. No one spoke to anyone. It was amusing as performance art but it was a shitty munch.

How does one munch at a library? Isn't that usually frowned upon?
- It's just the name of a particular kind of social get-together.
- Even librarians love snacks
What’s a munch? I feel like this is a set up

I try this every day but it doesn’t work. Extros gonna extro.

Just going to throw this out there for fellow introverts.

Looks cool man but as an extreme introvert, I worry about the false dichotomy of intro/extro. I'm fucked up and isolated because that's what I want. I'm also decent at interpersonal relations, but it hurts my brain to do sales. Because I don't want you to buy the thing I am trying to sell you.
- Sales hurting your brain is only indicative of a healthy moral compass

Hot take: This is gonna sound conceited to introverts but “shutting the fuck up so others can talk and contribute” IS society forcing extroverts to do exactly what you said. When an extrovert isn’t talking they are probably deliberately holding back because it’s socially polite

this isn't even about 'letting others talk'. it's just nice to have moments where folk can simply be in each other's company and not be required to converse
Extroverts can listen, it is the overall interaction that they crave.
- Talkativity is a defining feature of extraversion

Being an ambivert is nice lol