Ever since I was a kid I've been super sensitive. I never really understood why small things would play on my mind so much, why I felt so much empathy for people and things I'd never even met or knew, why loud noises made me jump so much, and why category 12A horror films made me cry so much and scarred me for life. My parents always used to say how psychologists would have a field day with me, and I always thought I was just a bit odd. Until I got some sort of answer for why I'm so sensitive.
It was a couple of years ago that a friend sent me an article about highly sensitive people, and was like 'this is you!'. And she was so right, every single thing was me, and it made me feel more normal to have an answer as to why I was like this! Apparently the medical term is 'Sensory Processing Sensitivity', which is when people have nervous systems that process stimuli more intensely.
It was a couple of years ago that a friend sent me an article about highly sensitive people, and was like 'this is you!'. And she was so right, every single thing was me, and it made me feel more normal to have an answer as to why I was like this! Apparently the medical term is 'Sensory Processing Sensitivity', which is when people have nervous systems that process stimuli more intensely.
