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social gifts that they hadn’t insisted she

study more. But mostly she blamed

herself.

As an adult, Alison is determined not

to make similar mistakes. She knows

how easy it would be to lose herself in

a whirl of PTA meetings and business

networking. So Alison’s solution is to

look to her family for adaptive

strategies. She happens to be the only

child of two introverted parents, to be

married to an introvert, and to have a

younger daughter who is a strong introvert

herself.

Alison has found ways to tap into the

wavelength of the quiet types around

her. When she visits her parents, she

finds herself meditating and writing in

her journal, just the way her mother

does. At home she relishes peaceful

evenings with her homebody husband.

And her younger daughter, who enjoys

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