Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) test

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You have indicated that 25 of the items are true of you.

Scoring:
If you answered more than fourteen of the questions as true of yourself, you are probably highly sensitive. But no psychological test is so accurate that an individual should base his or her life on it. We psychologists try to develop good questions, then decide on the cut off based on the average response.

If fewer questions are true of you, but extremely true, that might also justify calling you highly sensitive.

--> Well, it was obvious... not very surprising at all since I already know I suffer from migraines (making me hypersentitive when I have one), photophobia and hypersentitivy to noises.

You have indicated that 15 of the items are true of you.



Scoring:
If you answered more than fourteen of the questions as true of yourself, you are probably highly sensitive. But no psychological test is so accurate that an individual should base his or her life on it. We psychologists try to develop good questions, then decide on the cut off based on the average response.

If fewer questions are true of you, but extremely true, that might also justify calling you highly sensitive

18.

After running in circles crying because I decided to take the test, I scored 27. LOL. Not really, but I hate being so sensitive. My husband says that's what makes me "special". I said, "No, that's what makes me CRAZY." The world isn't set up for overly-sensitive people, so I have my layers of protection that I employ in order not to feel beat up by the end of the day. Thank God for headphones and sunglasses.

I find it hard to believe that anyone could fail to be a Highly Sensitive Person by those criteria - answering "no" to 14 or more of those questions sounds amazing.

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I only picked those I felt to be "very" applicable, and got a 15, one above the threshold. Mainly about startling, cracking under observation, and very intensely enjoying stimulation from music.

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I scored a 20.

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I scored 21, I've always been a Highly Sensitive Person. I remeber in school, the cafeteria was just always to noisy for me. In elementary school, I would cover my ears, or wear ear plugs. A lot times I would eat in the school room with other students sensitive to noise, and hearing impaired students. At recess I would play with by myself or a few kids at a time. I middle school I hated the cafeteria, to noisy and bullies picked on me. I was allowed to eat in a school room, with others who had it written in their ieps. In high school I would eat in halls, or other areas were you could eat. In Senior high school we had off campus lunch. I would eat in areas that weren't noisy or walk to my friend's house or go out to eat.

You have indicated that 24 of the items are true of you.

Scoring:
If you answered more than fourteen of the questions as true of yourself, you are probably highly sensitive. But no psychological test is so accurate that an individual should base his or her life on it. We psychologists try to develop good questions, then decide on the cut off based on the average response.

If fewer questions are true of you, but extremely true, that might also justify calling you highly sensitive.

But I knew that.


Like right now when the door bell raaaaang. Scares the crap out of me every time. Unexpected people and loud noises. They do not mix well! xD

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Seems to me that there are different ways to be "sensitive", and only some of them are true of me; for example, I don't pick up other people's emotions, I don't avoid violent movies/video games, and I don't have a huge problem with having a lot of work to do (though I do have problems organizing myself well enough to attack it properly). I'm not in general an anxious person; things just tend to overload my circuits more easily than most people's.

I think this little survey is asking a lot of questions in areas that are only weakly related.

I've scored 27, this time. I really am a sensitive brown-eyed Cockney. I come pretty close, to Mick Avory.

I agree. I think the test is not that great. It basically asks "Are you sensitive?" and if you answer yes, then the results come back that you are sensitive.

I also agree there are different ways to be sensitive. And I think I've just had an epiphany of sorts. I realized that my main problem with coping in life is that am extremely sensitive emotionally and I don't have any means to cope with it. I used to think that I was overly fearful, but I realize now that I am right to be fearful, because when I have a serious setback (serious to me, that is, since it could be something that someone else would just sail through), something that upsets me greatly, then I don't ever bounce back from it. The older I get, the more open wounds I've accumulated, that never heal.

The conventional wisdom is that whatever happens to you makes you stronger, so you can cope with it better the next time, but my experience has been that whatever happens, it makes me more afraid, and the next time something happens my ability to cope is worse, not better.

And I am someone who has been fortunate enough to have never suffered any tragedies or abuse, only garden-variety pain and suffering, and yet these mundane setbacks have left me crushed.