how many aspies are highly sensitive?! !

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i feel more than most woman, many conversations let me feel that the persons are cold inside.

How many aspies consider themselve highly senitive?

How to differentiate between a just highly sensitive person and an autistic one?

thanks,
anton

I tend to be highly sensitive, both emotionally and physically. I'm very sensitive to criticism and I sometimes take insult at some things that aren't meant to be insulting.

I'm physically sensitive in the sense that I have very sensitive skin and am sensitive to loud, unexpected noises. My dad used to play a prank on me where I'd walk in front of the car and he'd blast the car horn. I have since only walked behind the car whenever he's in it. Also, my skin is very sensitive to certain clothing textures.

I know that the sensitive skin thing is definitely an autistic thing. I'm not sure about emotional sensitivity, though.

I think being highly sensitive and emotional is quite a common female asperger trait. I don't know so don't quote me! It's just a theory! I am extremely sensitive to criticism, I cry over things that seem trivial or silly to other people like name calling or something.

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

Today at work a lady sitting next to me had the sneezes and she kept blowing her nose, I had left my ear phones at home so had no way to block her sounds out and I was quietly going mad.

The lady was clearly suffering from her sneezing and runny nose so I didn't ask her to shut up, I just asked to go home. No way could I have handled a day listening to that! Then all the other sounds around me sounded so much louder than they were.

I also can't go a day without wearing a singlet under any piece of clothing, even if it is a really hot summers day, must wear a singlet. Can't stand the feeling of loose clothing on my skin. I'd rather over heat than feel loose clothing.

I take everything to heart and used to take insult to pretty much everything but that is one thing I'm learning to overcome really well. My boyfriend likes to joke, so he's helped me a lot.

I am, emotionally, not that there's anything wrong with it.

uh female aspie here and VERY unemotional. I just do not get the logic behind the emotional behaviours that go on most of the time. If there is not logic, it generally doesn't register with me.

Dear kfisherx,

what do you mean exactly? Don't you understand the emotional reactions or do you mean, that you are not very emotional sensitive, not having any overbearing feelings?

anton

anton...

I am not sure how to answer your question as I said (quite literally) what I meant in my first post.... Let me try to rephrase and say it differently.

When I see people having "melt downs" (NTs have them all the time), I do not know how to react. Almost 100% of the time, the emotions seem so overblown to me or completely irrational. What few women friends I have, know that I cannot "go" with them to their emotional places. So if I have a friend who is crying because so-and-so called her a name (or some such thing) I honestly cannot help her in any traditional way. I just observe. I do not cry over things like name calling or spilled milk. I am slow to anger. I simply do not experience emotions like most people and do not understand them.

This is the reason I am in therapy right now. Recently my Father passed away, but worse he died right in front of me. I cried for a few weeks after that at random times throughout my day and then the crying stopped. I cannot seem to get myself back to a normal life/routine now so was sent to see a shrink by my boss. Additionally my autism symptoms are flared up horribly. My therapist believes I do not know how to process the emotions of such a tragedy and he is even unsure how to help me process at this point.

I know I am not normal, but am saying that I am VERY opposite of "sensitive" or "emotional"

i don't think I'm particularly sensitive to criticism, but I am very sensitive to deliberate meanness and I have a very hard time getting over it. I'm still upset over things that were done to me several years ago, just petty mean-spirited stuff.

There's also a useful aspect to sensitivity if you're an artist. It allows you to see and actually feel the subtleties in juxtapositions of colors etc. I have that ability, I only wish I was able to do more with it.

Emotional, perception of emotion, empathy and sensitive are different scales.

I have low emotion tolerance and am not very emotionally perceptive, but fairly empathetic and sensitive [by several definitions. My wife is low on emotion tolerance, but highly perceptive, empathetic and sensitive.

Physically very sensitive, but I know that isn't what you were talking about. Not that emotionally sensitive.

I'm not sure exactly which kind of sensitive we're talking about here. I am highly sensitive in an emotional sense. I take far too much in then have nowhere to put it

I'm sensitive to everything.

Emotions, pain, medications, certain foods/ sugary/ rich, temperature, all five senses. Although I recently heard there are 21 senses in all so I probably am sensitive to all of them.

Oooh! Me! I'm highly sensitive!

No touching allowed.

Yeah I am totally sensitive and always have been. I tend to like my shutdowns because I lose my sensitivity.