Shyness or Normal Multiple Personality? Hana Schank’s “Writing My Way to a New Self” in today’s New York Times Sunday Review

The writer describes how she had been introverted when meeting people in person, but extroverted when contacting people by letter.

She says, “Of course I’d been a different person in my letter. I’d been writing.”

And when she overcomes her problem, she says, “It was as though my writing self and my public self had begun to merge into one whole person.”

My question is why Hana Schank—author of the forthcoming book “The Edge of Normal”—poses the issue in terms of alternate selves rather than shyness.

I guess she poses the issue that way, because that was her subjective experience. She didn’t feel like one shy person, but rather like two people.