67. A view of HSPs from a non-HSP: interview with Al Motter

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

Sensitive, Highlysensitiveperson, Mental Health, Aron, Introversion, Social Sciences, Personality, Mentalhealth, Introvert, Sensitivity, Shyness, Science, Health & Fitness, Hsp, Anxiety, Wellness

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest, Al Motter, is one of the hosts of the excellent Introvert Extrovert podcast. He's the "Introvert" out of the two hosts, but he doesn't have the trait of high sensitivity.

In this episode, Al talks about how he sometimes wishes he was more sensitive, and how a recent bout of medication gave him a few weeks of heightened sensitivity--resulting in some fascinating insights into our world. H

is perspective, as an outsider to the HSP world, can help HSPs see the larger picture: there ARE a lot of great things about being able to feel deeply!

He also talks about tutoring crying kids, why physically larger males are "allowed" to cry, and loving Benihana restaurant (which I hate).

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Podcast music attribution: Bust This Bust That (Professor Kliq) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Transcript

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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.
0:11.7	Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits.
0:18.3	Welcome to episode 67 of the highly sensitive person podcast. I'm your host, Kelly. This podcast is all about topics related to having sensory processing sensitivity. Today, my guest is Al Motter of the introvert extrovert podcast. The podcast is an examination of life as both an
0:41.0	introvert and an extrovert because Al's co-host on the show, Johnny, is a highly sensitive
0:46.8	extrovert. And I interviewed Johnny back in episode 60, but Al, my guest today, is an introvert who does not have the trait of
0:56.6	high sensitivity. At least we think he doesn't, and we'll talk more about that later in this
1:01.5	episode. Al is a developmental psychologist, and we became friends a few months ago when I was on
1:08.3	his show, and Al has lots of great insight into being
1:12.6	highly sensitive because he's not and because he just thinks about this stuff a lot. Al,
1:19.6	thanks so much for being on the show today. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. You know,
1:24.4	I've been a fan and I've been listening and I was hoping that I would
1:28.1	have an opportunity to talk to you. One, because I was jealous of Johnny. And two, because you
1:33.6	guys were laughing at my kidney stones, if you listen to that episode towards the end there,
1:41.1	he was saying that I couldn't talk to him about having kidney stone pain because it hurt him.
1:47.0	Right.
1:47.6	And then also, I recently had some experiences where I got to, you know, take a little step into your guys' shoes because I've had the longest, most difficult time understanding what it's like to be more highly sensitive because I'm not, I'm really not very sensitive to stuff at all.
2:08.0	It takes a lot for me to like feel and I've been jealous of the conversations I hear you have with people.
2:16.2	I've been, I really loved,
2:18.7	like when you had Oliver Bergman on and when you had Amy Moran and you had Nicky on there,
2:26.9	that they,
2:28.1	you all seem to just have this like understanding of what's going on.
2:33.3	And I've always wished I had, I wish I understood what
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