Welcome to the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, a twice monthly podcast for people who experience the world intensely.

Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits.

Welcome to episode 53 of the Highly Sensitive. I'm your host Kelly. This is a show for

people who are highly sensitive, who think they might be highly sensitive, or today it's especially

for people who are not highly sensitive, but have someone in their life who is.

That's because today, my goal is to help those without the trait of high sensitivity understand it.

It's for those who have never really heard of HSP before or who don't really believe it.

It is to help them better understand what on earth their spouse or partner or friend or family

member is talking about when they tell them,

hey, I just discover this thing called highly sensitive people and I think I am one.

What the heck does it mean to be an HSP?

First, I want to address a few things.

I know last week I said I was going to try to stop using the phrase non-HSP,

but I've discovered that this is really difficult because it gets wordy to keep saying

those without the trait.

So I apologize, but for the sake of my own ease, I'm probably

going to keep saying non-HSP. So the format of this show is going to be like a list of frequently

asked questions that people have about being a highly sensitive person. So let's go. Let's get into this. Frequently asked question

number one. Aren't sensitive people just drama queens and cry babies and annoying people who get

easily offended? Answer, in my opinion, the first step in understanding HSPs is to adjust your personal definition of the word

sensitive. This is super important. The first reaction many people have when they hear the phrase

highly sensitive person is a negative reaction. And that's because of the charged word sensitive. But let's think about

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