No, Anxiety and Introversion Do Not Always Go Hand in Hand

Anne Taylor
4 min readJul 21, 2020

I’m an introvert. I also have an anxiety disorder. While those two things are related for me, that’s not the case for everyone. It’s a common misconception that anxiety and introversion always go hand in hand, but that’s not true! I can’t tell you the number of times someone who knows I’m an introvert heard I have anxiety and said, “Oh, that makes sense.” Let’s dig into this stereotype and…

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Anne Taylor

Freelance writer, aspiring author, and wannabe poet