An INFP HSP: The Highly Sensitive Person

My review of Elaine Aron's The Highly Sensitive Person and a little bit of my dealing's with it as an INFP.

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Education

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• hsp
• highly sensitive person
• elaine aron
• infp
• introversion
• myers-briggs
• anxiety

[ilauise]

I feel the exact same way, also INFP :O definitely reading that book, thank you so much for guiding me to it! ^^

[ReikiLightBringer]

scored full points on the HSP test and am also an INFP.... sensitive to peoples emotions and energies in general, sounds, touch, smells... Dont like to think it is or I am special though, feel very ordinary in every aspect of being.

[Zypakoi]

Interesting.. I am an INFP HSP too.. also have social anxiety pretty bad... interesting video. =D

[MiriamSPia]

@YourRisingPhoenix You know, that makes you sound like a human being.

[MiriamSPia]

@fredbloggs02 Truthfully, I don't know. I don't know how you mean about Prometheus bound...I mean, I know the myth. Prometheus represents technological powers to control nature, which is one of humanity's great strengths. The gods were said to have hated it at times because it made us so much more powerful than we are when kept in a purely natural state.

[MiriamSPia]

@fredbloggs02 I have no idea where you got that impression of his character. I didn't really think about it. I have not read supplemental material about him myself, only his philsophical works but I did listen when the professor mentioned extra details about his personal life. Glad you like Thus Spoke Zarathusra - it is an excellent book. In fact, I have a German copy right in this room, its sitting on an altar.

[MiriamSPia]

@fredbloggs02 I read Nietzsche as part of my undergraduate work. I ended up with 2 degrees in philosophy; technically I'm only PD not MA, but its a political issue. Nietzsche was also a real lefty, as am I. Its not always easy. He did not have a disorder until later in life. He was brilliant and sensitive and unique. He was seeking to create a new path to spiritual attainment, that is certain.

[fredbloggs02]

@MiriamSPia So I think, his whole endeavour was to liberate Prometheus bound, those weren't his political views, or at least, none that he ever followed. I'd need to know how you read him to understand. I hear different people read into him differently, but I felt I'd found a friend and in the end, there is the distinction, I thought about his views as I followed myself with them, I grew with them.

[fredbloggs02]

@MiriamSPia In all honesty, I've never known anyone I could relate to so far as Nietzsche. He had that frenetic disposition capable of anything at any instant, reposed on the surface, deeply conflicted within. He didn't possess his conflict as he proffessed, it riddled him. hemorrhaging inhuman objectivity in moments to himself, so obviously, riddled with compassion and conscience. When I first read his main work "thus spoke Zarathustra"... I could breathe..as though I never had before.

[fredbloggs02]

@MiriamSPia How did you read Nietzsche, may I ask? You didn't read him some supermacist anti-semite did you?  To me, he was a deeply self-oppressed soul trying to liberate himself, trapped within himself, searching for a cure. He was highly sensitive, I know that and that was his problem. He knew his disorder. Only characters of the Nietzschean disposition will understand NIetzsche I think. God was of his being it was of him to follow Wagner, Rousseau and all those he proffessed to hate.