Isn’t everyone dysfunctional to some degree? We may have a dysfunctional family; or we may be the dysfunctional family member! Maybe we’re a dysfunctional parent, or maybe we have one. Because of all the negative perception about introverts, we may qualify to raise our hand, “Yes! I’m dysfunctional.” Let’s just stop that now and find a way to put the fun back in dysfunctional as relates to us. Here are the top ten ways to consider:

1. We don’t have to suffer from being a doormat. Some of us don’t even recognize we do.
2. Identify your strengths, put them into action and surprise yourself with the outcome.
3. Even extroverts have a certain amount of dysfunction.
4. Some extroverts are beyond therapy but they continue to sing out of tune.
5. Let go of the fights with yourself with questions like: “Does my introvert butt look big in this event?”
6. Introverts are like icebergs: you see on the surface a small amount of the full person. Nur Zafrena recently tweeted this and it fits perfectly!
7. As a woman introvert, if you are ever called a bitch, to your face or behind your back, you’ve just been complimented as being assertive.
8. I think introverts, like dogs, can learn enough people skills to get along.
9. Introverts are social. It’s just that most of the time, “One is company and two is a crowd.”
10. Don’t accept that the word dysfunctional relates to who you are as more introverted. It’s really someone else’s lack of understanding.

It’s time for us to transform how we think of ourselves as being different. We are for goodness sake! But it can be easier if we lighten up, accept who we are as we are and then go with the global dysfunctionality.

What can you say to help us lighten about ourselves? And thank you my friend Margie Basarabaof CheckItOutTravel for the title – great fun.