This is the highly sensitive person podcast, a weekly podcast for people who experience the world

brighter, louder, and more intensely. Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive

person traits. Welcome to episode 39. I'm your host, Kelly.

This is the highly sensitive person podcast where I talk about what it's like to have sensory processing sensitivity.

When you experience all the stimulation and everything around you, like sights and smells and sounds and emotions, very strongly.

I'd like to start with a comment that was left in the blog from a reader who calls himself Aqua. It's difficult for me since I don't have many friends

or acquaintances that can relate or understand my sensitivity. Sometimes people tell me,

don't be so sensitive or stop worrying about things so much. But I feel that my sensitivity

is simply a part of who I am. Especially as a guy, I sometimes feel that people look down on me for it.

But this podcast has helped me love and accept who I am exactly the way I am. And I can't express how

comforting it is to know that there are quite a few others out there who think

a lot of the thoughts that I do. And the podcast also helped me to adjust to the rest of the world

and to try to be more accepting of the times when people aren't sensitive of my feelings.

Thanks so much, Aqua. This is quite relevant to today's topic, actually.

Today's show is about haters,

the people who don't believe that high sensitivity is a real thing,

or who think that HSPs are just whiners who want it to be treated in a special way,

or that HSPs are making excuses to accept their flaws,

instead of trying to improve themselves.

When I see comments like all the stuff I just said, it's like a little fire is inside my gut.

It just riles me up and ticks me off.

Because, well, part of it is just the nature of the internet.

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