I was nodding my head so many times while reading it. It’s something my elementary school self wouldn’t believe if I told her.Īnyways, this book. And now, I’m connecting with more and more HSPs like me, some who’ve known for a while and others who’ve just found out. And when I told my parents about it, they also wholeheartedly agreed. And let me tell you-it was like a lightbulb going off in my head. I finally found out about the term Highly Sensitive Person in 2021. I thought I was broken for having difficulty to be unfazed by violence and pain. I thought I was the only one who felt other people’s emotions as if they were my own. I did not understand why I felt emotions so deeply. This lead to me constantly hearing things like “There’s nothing to cry over” and “You need to toughen up” and of course, “Why in the world are you crying?” Something that was annoying, confusing, and needed to be “fixed”. For me, being an HSP means I’m more physically, socially, AND emotionally sensitive to things like watching violent movies, listening to loud music, and tearing up during books and movies if characters suffers in any way (physical pain, watching other characters die, etc.).įor the longest time, my sensitivity was seen as something people didn’t understand. As someone who’s an HSP (highly sensitive person), this book is incredibly validating.įor those who don’t know, HSP is a personality trait first coined by psychologists Elain and Arthur Aron in the 1990s.
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