Are you a Highly Sensitive Person? This trait ... is inherited by 15 to 20% of the population, and ... seems to be present in all higher animals. Being an HSP means your nervous system is more sensitive to subtleties. Your sight, hearing, and sense of smell are not necessarily keener .... But your brain processes information and reflects on it more deeply. Being an HSP also means, necessarily, that you are more easily overstimulated, stressed out, overwhelmed. This trait ... has been mislabeled as shyness (not an inherited trait), introversion (30% of HSPs are actually extraverts), inhibitedness, fearfulness, and the like. HSPs can be these, but none of these are the fundamental trait they have inherited ...
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posted by grumblebee on Apr 8, 2007 - 150 comments

Like, try to understand where the emo kids are coming from.
posted by jonson on Apr 19, 2006 - 70 comments

Touch-Sensitive Cyborg
posted by cmicali on Jun 15, 2005 - 21 comments