[Aenima]

I love David Foster Wallace's perspective. And yet he is a victim of his own marked perceptiveness. Simply by believing solitude is pathology indicates the troubling demons he grappled with, which ultimately consumed him.

I think the truth is much more simple. Most people are not highly critical of introverts that prefer quiet and solitude. They may not understand it, but they are mostly indifferent. However, the harsh struggle for the introvert to connect with others on a deeper level leads him/her to that conclusion.