Sensitive in an unsensitive world

[mynameis]

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[Spyke]

Last night I took this pill which I thought was panadol, but when I looked at the packet it said HTFU Pill.

I tell ya man i feel like a new person.

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I'm afraid the world eats sensitive people for breakfast. and lunch. and dinner.

You will change in time, after many tough things happen to you, often leaving you feeling angry and victimised. Better you decide to change of your own accord earlier rather than later, rather than leave the world to push you into it.

I always remember "Always show kindness, up to the point where kindness is taken for weakness."

There will be lots of people who think you are kind and caring. Keep them close to you and do anything for them, like you already do. Don't be afraid to ask them for help with your things as well.

There will be lots of people who think you are weak. They will be wrong, and their little gag will backfire on them heavily, taking much more from them that they ever imagined it could. People will be puzzled as hell when they can't beat you.

Keep these tools close to you and gain experience with them - logic, fun, spontaneity, accuracy, perfection, kindness, and emotional literacy.


Steve

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[CookMySock]

I just wet myself

Watch you don't slip over in it.

Steve

[The Stranger:Me]

I'm afraid the world eats sensitive people for breakfast. and lunch. and dinner.

You will change in time, after many tough things happen to you, often leaving you feeling angry and victimised. Better you decide to change of your own accord earlier rather than later, rather than leave the world to push you into it.

I always remember "Always show kindness, up to the point where kindness is taken for weakness."

There will be lots of people who think you are kind and caring. Keep them close to you and do anything for them, like you already do. Don't be afraid to ask them for help with your things as well.

There will be lots of people who think you are weak. They will be wrong, and their little gag will backfire on them heavily, taking much more from them that they ever imagined it could. People will be puzzled as hell when they can't beat you.

Keep these tools close to you and gain experience with them - logic, fun, spontaneity, accuracy, perfection, kindness, and emotional literacy.


Steve

Remind me will you Steve, what do you do for a living?

[The Stranger:Me]

I just wet myself

Well if all that good advice don't work you can always scream, wail and throw a tanty.

[enigma51]

Well if all that good advice don't work you can always scream, wail and throw a tanty.

You could just buy an ice cream

[Number One]

I am a sensitive person trapped in an insensitive bastards body.

Totally agree for you and for me


I wear my heart on my sleeve, am rather honest and at times overly affected by things this can be draining but I find that most of the time my radar is on target and has served me well.

At least in tune with what is going on around me. On a daily basis I interact with academics and policy wonks who have so little emotional intelligence you would believe they walk around all day with their head up their own arses while kissing themselves. Completely oblivious to their impact on situations and those around them.

I'd personally rather be hyper sensitive than unaware

[Ms Piggy]

apparently 20% of people are hyper sensitive people.

I'm interested - where did you get this information from?

I think it's easy to caught up on labels we or other people try to put on us. In general it appears to me society is constantly trying to pigeon hole and categorise everyone . I don't believe that there are many absolutes when it comes to the different personality traits people have.

Being "hyper sensitive" isn't *who* you are (talking generally there not about you personally) - it may be a part of what makes up the person that you are though. Labels can be really dangerous and make people either feel disempowered or trapped into being someone they're not all of the time. On the other hand sometimes they can help people understand why they are the way they are as long as they're recognised as being a part of and not the whole of who the person is.

[paddy]

I think the term "sensitive" is a dangerous one because it can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I think the information in the original post is over-generalised. People can exhibit different characteristics in different circumstances and different times in their life. I think that's okay. Everyone is different and that's a wonderful thing.

I would say though, there is a time when it becomes not okay. That time is when you feel out of control. When you a driven by emotions that you don't want to be driven by. When you life is ruled and controlled by what you feel and you're exhausted. This might feel as powerful and as out-of-control as a gambling addict or a alcoholic. At that point I would say, find someone professional to talk to. Walk it though with them. It can be changed and healed. (Indeed professional help might even be able to find and correct the original cause.) If it's not something that's bothering you though - just celebrate you differences.

P.

[Spyke]

I'm interested - where did you get this information from?

I found it on the interweb, so that stat could have been made up.

I personaly relate to number one except I don't show it as much and probably hold onto the feelings that i feel alot more.