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30 Jan 2022, 2:41 pm

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I'm sensitive, probably because of how I've been treated in the past by so-called "friends". Also sensitivity runs in my family.

It's hard to snap out of being sensitive, and getting cliches thrown at you doesn't help (although people throwing cliches at you do mean well but it's still annoying). I find it difficult to ignore and "rise above" things. If a bunch of teenagers were yelling insults across the street at me, I cannot ignore them. It makes me think that they're doing it because I look stupid or weird, and it reminds me of my high school days when I got treated like that by kids. As an adult I should have more respect from younger people.

I hate it when people tell me "stand up for yourself, if they don't like it then they weren't friends in the first place". I just hate that and it's not always easy to think like that. In the NT world it's sometimes easier to be friends with people than not, and I totally understand that. Try telling a young person "if your friends offer you a cigarette just say no, and if they make fun then they aren't true friends anyway. Find other friends." It's just not that simple, unless you don't feel many emotions or you prefer to be alone or you can make the right friends really easily.
I'm extremely sensitive to social rejection because it feels like my teenage years are coming back to haunt me, and it's hard to just tell myself "oh well, I didn't want to be friends with them anyway, they're not worth knowing", because it goes more deeper than that. That frame of mind might work with an extroverted, thick-skinned NT with no PTSD problems, but not
with me. I'm not thick-skinned at all. Sorry.


when people say simple and direct comments like "find more friends" "or just dont worry"etc..and other similar comments, they are letting you know, they dont give a rats. its not happening to them, so its not a problem. i find, when it does happen to them , they are the first ones to complain. double standards. people who give you a hard time, try to control you, laugh at you, put you down, are not your friends. they are pathetic. had that done to me my whole life. and then the ignorant pigs have the audacity to wonder why you are so angry and sensitive. people should have to make ammends and face up to their nastiness and ignorance. not just sweep it under the rug.


I think people just use cliches because they don't know what else to say.


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30 Jan 2022, 3:17 pm

Yep. That is sometimes the case.



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30 Jan 2022, 3:36 pm

SaveFerris wrote:
Is there anyone here who is on the spectrum and a Highly Sensitive Person?

What are you biggest issues and how do you cope /deal with them ?

If you also have alexithymia how does this complicate matters ?


Wow ^ Hi SF! :heart:


I'm not familiar with the term "Highly Sensitive Person" but I have Sensory Processing Disorder (diagnosed in my ASD report and also by an Occupational Therapist).

My biggest issues:

photophobia (sunlight, daylight, electric light), misophonia (small repetitive sounds, human sounds), and smellophobia (migraines, nausea, panic attacks). I'm not sure if those are the same as the characteristics of a Highly Sensitive Person or if HSP is more related to emotions.

How do I deal:

Avoidance and being a recluse. Failing that, I usually have a meltdown or panic attack if I have to be unprotected in society for very long. I have colour-tinted glasses for indoor use. I don't use electric light indoors except for coloured mood lighting at night, or candles and fairie lights. I avoid doing any tasks during the day, even housework, because of visual overwhelm which makes me shut down. Sounds - no relief except living in a contained bubble. Smells - no relief except not buying anything scented, avoiding a lot of food groups, and not having fresh flowers indoors.

Alexithymia - Yes I have it, and also poor interoception. I don't know any different so it's hard to say how that connects or makes it worse. I worked about 200 hours of OT in 2020 for help with Interoception.

The Test - I did the test that was linked here and I got 26/27. The only one I didn't have was "sensitivity to pain". I'm a bit hyposensitive to pain, again because of poor interoception.


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30 Jan 2022, 4:58 pm

IsabellaLinton wrote:
I'm not familiar with the term "Highly Sensitive Person" but I have Sensory Processing Disorder (diagnosed in my ASD report and also by an Occupational Therapist).

My biggest issues:

photophobia (sunlight, daylight, electric light), misophonia (small repetitive sounds, human sounds), and smellophobia (migraines, nausea, panic attacks). I'm not sure if those are the same as the characteristics of a Highly Sensitive Person or if HSP is more related to emotions.
I think HSP is more about emotions but it's been YEARS since I've done research on HSP.


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30 Jan 2022, 5:30 pm

nick007 wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
I'm not familiar with the term "Highly Sensitive Person" but I have Sensory Processing Disorder (diagnosed in my ASD report and also by an Occupational Therapist).

My biggest issues:

photophobia (sunlight, daylight, electric light), misophonia (small repetitive sounds, human sounds), and smellophobia (migraines, nausea, panic attacks). I'm not sure if those are the same as the characteristics of a Highly Sensitive Person or if HSP is more related to emotions.
I think HSP is more about emotions but it's been YEARS since I've done research on HSP.


Yes, sort of like what people mean by "empath."



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04 Feb 2022, 9:10 am

Funny I was just reading an article about HSP the other day. Sounds like alot overlaps with autism but not sure the concrete differences. My score was 25. Lots of the time I wish I could just hide at home most days.