Daria is an awesome show

Thank you MTV (I can’t believe I just said that) and Logo for finally broadcasting this show again! It is such good social commentary! I get it a bit more now that I’m 21 as opposed to 12 when I first watched the show, so this has been nice! :3

I just saw the saddest episode where she had a flashback to her childhood, when she was hearing her parents argue about her lack of socializing at school. It made me think of how hard it would be to be the only introvert in your family. Two highly extroverted parents wouldn’t understand your introverted needs, and with an extroverted sibling, you’d be perceived as ‘weird’. I’m so thankful that my parents never did that! My mom is fairly introverted, though she borderlines as an extrovert, but she was very understanding of my introverted ways. My father has a harder time getting it, but he didn’t try to make me into something I was not. They let me be alone as much as I wanted to…which was pretty much all the time. “I want to be alone” was the most common phrase I used, and they always let me be alone if I wanted to! I’m just glad they didn’t think I was ‘strange’. They just tried to learn how to make accommodations for my personality. Seeing that episode of Daria really made me think back to how different I was from the other kids as well. I didn’t really understand them, and they certainly didn’t understand me. Much like Daria, I was like a miniature adult from the time I was a child, getting along with adults far better than my peers. It took a while before I found others like me, who were also introverted and highly intelligent. I was blessed with understanding parents, not parents who thought that something was wrong with me just because I didn’t want to play with the other kids. I’m very glad for that, as a lot of people probably told them otherwise, since society is geared toward the extroverted and extroversion is considered ‘normal’.

So if you can’t tell, this show makes me think. :3 Which is probably my favorite thing to do! :D