I meant to say "are you a highly sensitive person?"
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HSPs are that 15-20% of the human population born with a nervous system genetically designed to be more sensitive to subtleties, more prone to deep reflection on inner experience, and therefore inevitably more easily overwhelmed by outer events.
This explains my sensitivy to light and noise, my extremely acute sense of taste and smell, sensitivity to textures in some foods, sensitivity to caffeine, the constant analysis in my head of all my experiences, the fact that I often feel overwhelmed by things that some people take in stride. When I took the self-test I scored 20 out of 21.
This book helped me to realize that I'm not weird or abnormal (as mother called me), but a person born with with a highly sensitive nervous system, that was inherited from my father. It helped me be a little kinder and more patient with myself.
