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**I don't think ps would make a difference to either one as to being outgoing
or being less a social butterfly. Actually, I think that ps might have the
opposite effect and
could turn a quiet, homebody into a total introvert.**

I think schools make a BIG difference in how kids feel about themselves as
social beings, and in how their natural bent on the introvert/extrovert
spectrum gets expressed. Social butterflys can become clique leader
terrorists. The shy and quiet withdraw permanently.

I think what passes for socialization in schools damages everyone, the
unpopular and the popular alike. What passes for interaction between boys and
girls in junior high schools damages both sexes. Many never get over it.

Human beings truly aren't meant to be raised in packs, but that's what
happens when we send them to schools. They spend a large part of each day
surrounded by others who are just as unskilled at civilzation as they are,
told to "work things out" by outnumbered adults without being given the
skills and guidance necessary to do so.

There's a newish middle school in a nearby town that holds 2100 students in
6th - 8th grades. That's just about the scariest thing I can think of
(outside of wars and other disasters) - that many hormonally challenged
people all bouncing off of each other every day all day. Poor kids.

Deborah