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INTP and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
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Highly Sensitive Person? The Highly Sensitive Person
If this is what you're talking about, I find I have a lot of the traits found in HSPs (the following are from the self test on the link I gave above) -
I am easily overwhelmed by strong sensory input.
Other people's moods affect me.
I find myself needing to withdraw during busy days,into bed or into a darkened room or any place where I can have some privacy and relief from stimulation.
I am particularly sensitive to the effects of caffeine.
I am easily overwhelmed by things like bright lights, strong smells,coarse fabrics,or sirens close by.
I have a rich,complex inner life.
I am made uncomfortable by loud noises.
I am deeply moved by the arts or music.
I am conscientious.
I startle easily.
I am annoyed when people try to get me to do too many things at once.
I am bothered by intense stimuli, like loud noises or chaotic scenes.
When I was a child, my parents or teachers seemed to see me as sensitive or shy.
If this is what you're talking about, I find I have a lot of the traits found in HSPs (the following are from the self test on the link I gave above) -
I am easily overwhelmed by strong sensory input.
Other people's moods affect me.
I find myself needing to withdraw during busy days,into bed or into a darkened room or any place where I can have some privacy and relief from stimulation.
I am particularly sensitive to the effects of caffeine.
I am easily overwhelmed by things like bright lights, strong smells,coarse fabrics,or sirens close by.
I have a rich,complex inner life.
I am made uncomfortable by loud noises.
I am deeply moved by the arts or music.
I am conscientious.
I startle easily.
I am annoyed when people try to get me to do too many things at once.
I am bothered by intense stimuli, like loud noises or chaotic scenes.
When I was a child, my parents or teachers seemed to see me as sensitive or shy.
Same. I'm not really sure what to make of it, though.
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Would you say that if you remember a lot of events where you said or did something embarrassing/hurtful and still remember it even years later, that it was a HSP trait?
Also, I think my mother may have been an HSP. Her personality type, I think, was xNFJ.
Also, I think my mother may have been an HSP. Her personality type, I think, was xNFJ.
i got 21 on the test, so im a pretty extreme case of HSPness. 
I was just curious to see if this was an exclusively INF trait, because both INFP and INFJs are frequently HSPs, and i hadnt read anything about INTPs suffering from it
I was just curious to see if this was an exclusively INF trait, because both INFP and INFJs are frequently HSPs, and i hadnt read anything about INTPs suffering from it
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I could be identified as an HSP, the main reason why I'm inclined to avoid social gatherings is due to the sensory agitation piqued by enormous amounts of visual stimuli. If shyness relates to this (Seems to) then that supports the existence of my hyper-sensitivity. Some musicians would be an HSP, where most HSPs would identify as a musician of some kind...
Although I would be classified as an HSP, I'm not really that creative...unless motivated.
Although I would be classified as an HSP, I'm not really that creative...unless motivated.
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I see it as plausible that many Thinkers are HSP's as well; the attributes in the linked self-test aren't so much emotional overloads as much as they are sensory overloads. Perhaps the experiences of HS between INTPs and INFPs are not much difference. For example, if I am exposed to such environments or inputs (using examples from the self-test) as pain, loud and unpleasant noises, or too many things going on at once, it's not so much that it makes my Fi overload so much as it makes me unable to focus on my Fi (and for an INTP, their Ti I imagine). Considering that both types need to direct their energy inwards to maintain said energy, such Se-oriented experiences are likely to basically displace us out of our Fi/Ti "zone" which we are otherwise always comfortably nestled in. INTJs and INFJs, who have non-sensing, introverted dominant functions as well as INFPs/INTPs are therefore probably likely to have HS as well. Of course, this is just my speculation.
That's an interesting thought, and sounds plausible.
We should get the INxJs input on this as well.
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I scored 16, I noticed that some of these things bother me initially but as I get used to them I can block out unnecessary stimuli and its no big deal once again. If I'm with the right person/people in the right environment then I'm not HSP at all. My external environment either speeds up general apprehensive behavior or soothes it till I become extremely calm and peaceful and not affected by anything at all. I forcibly numb my emotions as practice in a lot of social situations, so that allows me to adjust to various possible turns of events that could come up. If I find my mind speeding up with negative thoughts or paranoia I will focus on something such as music that I can use to center myself again, and I'm back to normal. I'm sure there are techniques that one can master in order to overcome each aspect of the many tiers of sensitivity that encompasses them.
I liken it to what it feels like to be in an ice cold snowstorm:
At first yeah, its cold I'm freezing my nuts off. I don't know what it is but I quickly become adapted to the cold by ignoring it completely. Suddenly I'm able to enjoy the scent of the brisk air, the taste of the snow, and most of all experiencing the blanketing effect that not even sound can escape. You focus your mind completely on a specific detail of the situation that allows for infinite possibility.
I didn't think I was sensitive at all until I read this thread, I find if I think less about sensitivity then I am less affected by it altogether. Detachment to the rescue.
The only possible problem you might have is that you have to ignore everybody and everything around you.....well if thats a "problem" for you :crazy:. Yeah so I'm a space cadet.
I liken it to what it feels like to be in an ice cold snowstorm:
At first yeah, its cold I'm freezing my nuts off. I don't know what it is but I quickly become adapted to the cold by ignoring it completely. Suddenly I'm able to enjoy the scent of the brisk air, the taste of the snow, and most of all experiencing the blanketing effect that not even sound can escape. You focus your mind completely on a specific detail of the situation that allows for infinite possibility.
I didn't think I was sensitive at all until I read this thread, I find if I think less about sensitivity then I am less affected by it altogether. Detachment to the rescue.
The only possible problem you might have is that you have to ignore everybody and everything around you.....well if thats a "problem" for you :crazy:. Yeah so I'm a space cadet.
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i read the HSP book awhile back and consider myself HSP, inxp and possibly ADD. also, i think there is something to be said for asperger traits w/ HSP that are Ts. there is a disorder known as SPD (sensory processing disorder) that correlates with HSP, too. overall there is a lot of overlap. i've found most with the IN pref. to have most of the above traits. we feel different from society because we are a minority, i do not believe these are all disorders actually.
Dudes, I have spoken personally with Dr. Elaine Aaron, the author of *The Highly Sensitive Person.* I paid her $50 several years ago, at Stonybrook University on Long Island, to talk to me about myself and unscrew a few things from my childhood. She was still working on the book at that point. If memory serves, she (with her hubby?) created the theory of the HSP. She is also an INTP.
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A lot of those things still apply, I would say.
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Huh, I guess I am.
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