>>512201562 (OP)I'm introverted and my parents didn't neglect me at all. They were always there when I needed them and often there when I didn't, just to make sure things were going okay in my life. They weren't helicopter parents by any means, understanding that kids need time alone just to play in the nearby fields full of trees and neat things. (We built quite a few treehouses high up in the branches and that was always fun.)
On the whole, I think I had quite a healthy childhood due to having parents with common sense about how to establish boundaries and also having so much green space in our neighborhood for kids to mess around in (by my late teen years, all that green space was developed into businesses and tract housing -- a big loss for the kids of that area).
So I just don't see how my introversion can be related to parental neglect.
I've always loved to think, read, and write and I always learned very quickly and took an interest in many different subjects, from archaeology (my first love) to astrophysics (maybe my second love, as I was reading popular cosmology books by age ten, like Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time), to geology, history (especially ancient and medieval), philosophy, and even canonical Western literature.
I think my introversion is just related to being a naturally thoughtful person. It's the simplest explanation and comports best with my experience of when and why I would sometimes withdraw from my friend group; I just wanted some time to read and think and learn new things.
The fellow who wrote that comment in the OP about introversion being the product of child neglect seems rather vicious, like he's eager to smear and insult an entire type of person, and he pathologizes the kind of personality that's needed to undertake deep thought, i.e. introversion.
There is a tendency, especially in America, to pathologize serious thinking.
