About The Highly Sensitive Person

The author of The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D., summarizes the trait of high sensitivity. A free, easy test to determine if you are an HSP (highly sensitive person) is on her web site: hsperson.com

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[Alicesliced]

A lot of people don't really understand that I have a lower stimulation tolerance. I'm at university and because I'm shy and I don't like parties people think that I'm weird and boring. I have managed to make a few friends though. I also become stressed and anxious more easily than most people.

I was also diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, I'm sure being a HSP is a part of it.

[rainbo5250]

No teacher should be making YOU pick up trash,....unless you are the one who threw it in the first place,......or if it is some kind of group project.

I would state, "You either explain yourself, or I am reporting you!" It looks like emotional abuse to me, and this so called 'teacher' has found someone to manipulate, and push around.

Bark out, "HELL NO, and if you try this again, you won't have a job!"

That ought to work beautifully.

Love, & strength to you!

[Areopagitican]

So you are a highly sensitive, sexist retard...

Great. Thanks.

[ubertuberfly]

Throughout my 30 years I've been variably blessed and crippled by being highly, and in some ways extremely, sensitive. I have long believed that the cause was rooted in my nervous system because I am both emotional and physically sensitive. I only tonight discovered the HSP concept. I'm trying not get my hopes up, but perhaps now I can find effective ways to cope. Most day's it is too much to bear and I fear I'll never be happy or understood.

[Kathryn Anderson]

Like that explains it all! I would rather not have had a father, who nearly killed me with his beating me up. at the age of 5, for nothing! The only thing fathers are good for are paying the bills, and my mother did more of that than him. All the men I have known were beaters too. How the hell does a HSP survive this wild dangerous world? We go inside and live there. We hole up in a somewhat safe place. We cry. We try to change the world and teach that bullying is not OK!!! We pray.

[Mallory Knox]

She has lovely eyes.

I think i had a 'troubled child hood', for me anyway. I mostly remember being ridiculed then put on a pedestal because i was the youngest and was different. I felt i could never talk about anything that i felt, and i hated the dynamics of my parents realations ship. But my dad is the worst, because every converstaion i have with him is onesided and scary. I feel this has made my temperament even more inhibited, which is damaging.

[Animetalchick]

Freelance or a job where you have the freedom to work at home :)

[Danial Pham]

This was therapeutic, thank you for explaining my mind. My childhood was terrible, I've had my moments of heavy depression and anxiety. And I am very sensitive towards people's moods. And acting like a douche bag to be accepted does make me feel disgruntled. Etc etc. Thanks!

[emmiwemmy]

How ignorant and judgemental your comment is. What the enneagram doesn't take into consideration is science and the fact that we now know that HSP's ARE measurably different from non-HSP's, because their nervous systems are different. Feeling that one is different from the majority doesn't constitute "identity issues" if that belief turns out to be true. As with all personality types and temperaments there are innate strengths and weaknesses, the enneagram can be helpful there but it is biased.

[Nati6381]

thank you for that book! I am also an HSP. It is good to spread the knowledge about HSPs, as most of the people are not acquainted with the concept. HSPs suffer a lot in this world, because of the lack of understanding of their somehow different features.