55. Easily Grossed Out
The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast
Kelly
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I share stories about things that have grossed me out--a cow lung, pinning insects, and dissecting pigs. I also discuss how HSPs might get "grossed out" more than people without the trait--touching on the vasovagel response.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the highly sensitive person podcast, a twice monthly podcast for people who experience the world intensely. |
| 0:11.4 | Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome to episode 55 of the HSP podcast. I'm your host Kelly. It's been a while since I've done a show. I used to do them weekly than every other week and now less than that. I hate being inconsistent. I'm hoping to get back on track again in the new year. So thanks to all of you |
| 0:39.2 | who have hung in there with me. Today I want to share some stories that are hopefully a little |
| 0:44.3 | entertaining about things that have grossed me out. Blood, flesh, and dead creatures have always |
| 0:51.6 | disgusted me in a big way. I also want to talk about how HSPs might |
| 0:56.4 | get grossed out more than people without the trait. All right. Story time. When I was in fifth |
| 1:04.3 | grade, around 10 years old, in our science class, we were shown a cow lung, the lung of a cow. |
| 1:12.5 | The entire class crowded around this long table as the teacher showed us air expanding the lungs. |
| 1:20.7 | And I remember looking at it and thinking it was really interesting. |
| 1:23.8 | I'd never seen anything like it. |
| 1:25.8 | And then one of my classmates turned around and looked at me |
| 1:28.1 | and said, are you okay? You were white as a ghost. And I remember thinking that that was so weird because |
| 1:35.1 | I felt totally fine. I didn't know what this kid was talking about. Then, of course, a bunch of the |
| 1:40.5 | kids all turned around to look at me and the teachers looked at me too and said, |
| 1:44.6 | why don't you go sit down at your desk? I thought this was so strange because I felt fine. |
| 1:50.8 | And it was at that moment that I felt it. I went back to my desk and put my head down, |
| 1:56.2 | but my ears were ringing and felt burning hot. I felt nauseous, dizzy, and weak, and saw blackness |
| 2:03.1 | in front of my eyes, which I later learned is a textbook evasive vagal response, which I will |
| 2:09.2 | talk about later. I was also really embarrassed because nobody else in class had a problem |
| 2:14.6 | except for me. Here's another story. In middle school, we learned how to |
| 2:19.2 | classify insects into their genus or species or whatever. We had to go out and capture bugs |
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