9 Signs you're a highly sensitive person

Forbes.com ^ | Aug. 30, 2016 | Travis Bradbury

[jcon40]

Sensitive people get a bad rap. Research suggests that genes are responsible for the 15-20% of people who qualify as “highly sensitive.” Psychologist Elain Aron has studied this phenomenon extensively, and using MRI scans of highly sensitive people’s brains, she’s found that they experience sounds, feelings, and even the presence of other people much more intensely than the average person.

Sensitivity And Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships. The good news is that highly sensitive people aren’t more or less emotionally intelligent than others.

[Jonty30]

I do an awesome imitation of a baby cry. Loud, annoying, and you’ll do anything to get me to stop.

Don’t make me go there.

[Daffynition]

*Ralph, did you eat my tater tots?*

[canuck_conservative]

The hardest thing about being Highly Sensitive?

The insults from the 80% that aren’t

[mad_as_he$$]

0-9 here. Well I do learn from mistakes but I don't agonize about it.

[hughesm1]

What’s SJW...San Jose Weirdo? South Jersey Witch?

[nclaurel]

The headache may be from the thought that some of our own countrymen support Hillary...I know mine is.

[onona]

Social Justice Warrior

[onona]

That and that Arizona keeps foisting mccain on us all...

[OKSooner]

Clicked on it and the next thing I knew I was reading about some hollywood dude and his sartorial habits.

Say what?

[Dr. Sivana]

I was thinking of showing this article to my wife ... better not.

[T-Bone Texan]

I admit that at the end of the latest Terminator movie I got a little misty.

[moovova]

I get accused of being just the opposite.

[mad_as_he$$]

lol..+1. Me too. Good movie.

[VRWC For Truth]

Snowflakes eventually melt ...

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Emotional intelligence (EQ) is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships. The good news is that highly sensitive people aren’t more or less emotionally intelligent than others.”

I really thought it stood for EverQuest. But what do I know?

[little jeremiah]

Oh, that Erf. I should have known.

[COBOL2Java]

Same here. Forbes is the only site I know of that I can’t access without turning off the AB. F them.

The article's also Here without having to go to Forbes.

[Talisker]

The hardest thing about being Highly Sensitive? The insults from the 80% that aren’t

I met a guy who wrote a book on "highly sensitive" people. Biggest @sshole I've ever met - outrageously rude, insulting, aggressive, liar, all of it. He made me understand, by his behavior alone, exactly what a HSP REALLY is. It's just a New Age cover term for abusers.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I hear sounds that most people either don't hear or are able to ignore.

Not my imagination as I have the hearing tests to prove it.

Silence is a precious gift in my world.

[minnesota_bound]

I am offended there are only 9 signs. I will write a strongly worded letter to Forbes.