Is anyone else super sensitive?

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I'm not super sensitive, but sometimes I can't even handle basic criticism....

I'm sensitive, but I don't cry much at all. I used to cry a lot when I was a child, but that's because it was a hard time in my life. Things like criticism does upset me, but it doesn't make me cry like it might if I was a child. I'm more likely to get upset, angry, or frustrated (I tend to self harm when frustrated).

I'm pretty sensitive.

There was a code which was followed stringently when I was a kid: boys don't cry! And boys don't rat out other boys.

You were a sissy and a punk if you cried.

You were a rat fink/stool pigeon if your ratted out somebody.

I am quite sensitive. I mean, I have had a lot of times in school where I have broken down crying because either something happened which I don't like or someone was pretty mean to me. It happened a lot when I was younger and it still happens to this day.

And once, when my teacher had to raise his voice because my class was messing around, it scared me and I eventually started crying a lot. Same thing happened in drama once, when I had to do my drama piece again after it was too long. I had a huge meltdown and had to go out of the lesson.

So yeah, I am sensitive, and its pretty sad

Sounds very typical to me. Especially at a younger age. I see it a lot in school.

I used to think I was a "highly sensitive person", too. And I agree that it's autism.

I never used to cry, but I do now. People seem to not like me when I show emotion.. I think because it's too much for them, or they think I'm weak. I used to get harassed horribly for showing emotion. Now, I'm mostly alone or with people who know I'm this way.. I think I would have a hard time having to leave my house for work, now. Being out in public for a few hours is hard enough for me, without getting too emotional.

I used to cry a lot as a child, but that was because I was harshly misunderstood and had no other way to express myself. People did not want to communicate with me, so there wasn't ever a time where I was allowed to speak about how cross or upset I felt.

I once had someone tell me I cannot have autism because I'm too sensitive. I guess they assume aspies are void of emotion because of the logic stereotype? My meltdowns are a mixture of crying and rage. It's the initial shock that makes me cry then after that I replay little words and such in my head and it leads to the rage, usually where I have to bite my wrists to calm down at all.

I'm more the avoidance type than brutally honest-so if I say something hurtful it's usually when the person has been bothering me first. Once in 5th grade this girl had been relentlessly bullying me all day long, making comments about my clothing, hair, etc. She had recently lost her mother to cancer and right before dismissal I said to her, "at least my mother is still alive." Everyone around me kept saying how inappropriate it was, but to this day I don't feel remorse. She should have never said anything to me in the first place.

In short, if they don't bother me, I don't bother them.

I'm pretty sensitive to criticism and when people make fun of me jockingly. I very rarely cry, in fact I'm pretty emotionally blunted, but I do tend to get depressed. Usually I'll get depressed instead of angry or upset. Unfortunately though, I am sensitive to the injustice of this world.

I've been told I was very senstive as a kid & when I was suffering from a depression but I'm not that sensitive nowadays.