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#22 ·
I scored a 25 on the test, qualifying me as an HSP.
How am I to gather knowledge if I'm not sensitive to my environment?
 
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#24 ·
chill.take.over said:
thought from nowhere: is anyone here sensitive to touch and/or ticklish?
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I am EXTREMELY ticklish.
A friend and I did an experiment where I closed my eyes and she did not tickle me but got very close to me with her hands and did the tickling motions just above me, not actually making contact. She did it at random times so I wouldn't know when she was doing it, and I laughed and felt tickled when her hands got close to me even though she wasn't touching me. We call it premonition tickling.
You should try it out. haha.:]
 
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chill.take.over said:
thought from nowhere: is anyone here sensitive to touch and/or ticklish?
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Yes. I think it's an over-active CNS. Probably 5s and 6s are most prone to this but manifesting in different ways. I think 6s externalize it more onto the world and 5s retreat more into isolation and their minds. 6s seem more anxious of the world and either go counterphobic or reach out to people when phobic to alleviate it. 5s seem overwhelmed and isolate to avoid people and isolate from their emotions by detaching.

But I am sensitive to just about everything. Preservatives, dye in clothing, perfumes, cleaners, other people's energy field/aura (whatever you want to call it, I don't believe in the New Age twist on it), unspoken tension between even strangers, I can tell when other people are physically sick a lot, animal's emotions (even though science says they have no emotions that it's just purely limbic system automates response).

The only coping skill I've learned over the years to deal with it is avoidance/isolation. What is really strange is that I've worked in a crisis profession and when other people start to finally get overwhelmed by something, I am able to be calm. I suppose I detach because my thinking becomes crystal clear and I find myself without any feelings at all. It's almost as if I am a robot with no heart but not in a bad way. Just clinical and sterile. That doesn't last long, just long enough to take care of the crisis. Then all the sensitivity comes back.

I'm trying to find ways to deal with being HSP but so far I haven't been successful.
 
#26 ·
"You have indicated that 24 of the items are true of you."

I have always known that I am highly sensitive, however I am not very sympathetic. I am very empathetic, meaning I know what people are feeling at all times (with eerie accuracy), but I do not "feel for them." If my s/o were to tell me that she is terribly depressed, I would be concerned and would do my best to provide support/advice, but I would likely not feel anything other than slight nervousness out of fear that I may not be able to help her. Also, when presented with "community" issues, possibly from a school group that tells us about problems in our community (a college in WA) I truly, deeply... DO NOT CARE at all. It isn't that I wish ill for the community, but I simply don't find myself caring.

Anyway... I still would regard myself as a highly sensitive person.
 
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interconnectedness said:
"You have indicated that 25 of the items are true of you."

My girlfriend was washing some knives in the sink yesterday and she scraped them together. I fell backwards, covering my ears and hit my head off the cupboard.
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LOL. I am laughing WITH you and not AT you. I've done stuff like this many times. Certain noises make me recoil.

I am dreading my yearly trip to the mall for Christmas shopping. The sounds, the smells, the movement...makes me feel like I'm in a not-so-fun fun house of distortion, madness and mayhem.

After leaving the mall during holiday season, I have to come home and sleep for several hours before any semblance of normalcy returns. Even the sound of sleigh bells rattles me. No pun intended.
 
#30 ·
The wikipedia article describes me pretty well but I'm not to eager to jump on the HSP bandwagon. I got 13 on the test so I'm right on the border-line. I just googled borderline (I always look up words I am iffy about) and Borderline personality disorder came up and that seems to describe me pretty well too. Coincidentally I just got off the phone with my INFP friend eariler today who claimed she had BPD. I'm wondering if it's an NF thing.
 
#31 ·
Hmm, interesting. I scored 13. I admit that in some ways I am fairly sensitive, but I don't like this and wish to change it, because I think it holds me back.

I too am ticklish, to the point where anyone that grabs my ankle WILL get an involuntary kick to the face. Heh. However, I enjoy horror, including gory horror, if it has a good plot. I enjoy violent video games too. Even so, I am rather sensitive to sound and very easily startled (which annoys me terribly), so I tend to avoid things that might make me jump, especially if I'm around other people. I also very much dislike being yelled at or having someone become angry with me, and have become quite avoidant of others as a result.

Hnng. I don't like it, but it's something to ponder.
 
#33 ·
I scored around 10. It's mostly the situational aspects of my sensitivity, i.e. I'm sensitive to busy situations, and not too much else. I can be easily distracted by some of the smallest outside noises, but not sensitive to them.
 
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I've just posted about something similar. I am type 5 and ENTP (apparently) but also very definitely HSP. When I first did the test (about a year ago) I was INFP though so not quite sure what's going on! Also not sure how ENTP and type 5 fit with being HSP. It's all a bit strange because from the profile, it seems as though it's impossible for an ENTP to be HSP, or even just mildly sensitive. My experience rings true with a few of the previous posters about crying in films and video games (I get stressed when my sims have a fire and try to make sure I save them - even though intellectually I know it's silly to get so emotionally invested!!)

I enjoy time with myself/family/boyfriend/close friends usually much more than with others but I fare exceptionally well when I am in a social situation
 
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