Hi welcome to this week's edition of PHQ questions from the personality

hacker community my name is Joel Mark Witt and I'm Antonia Dodge and

Addison let's get right to our question today.

Hi Antonia and Joel my question is are highly sensitive persons connected to personality types.

I found quite frequently that INFJs like me are highly sensitive persons even though I think I know someone who isn't and

that I NFPs are as well, but I also think I know some of that type who aren't.

These sites suggest without much proven data that highly sensitive persons are from all personality types, but are most likely from INFJs and INFPs.

My question is, if you have any perspective on how this interacts with personalities and how it would present itself in different types and why they are more common in the I and F types.

I'm trying to map those systems of personality studies in my brain to one cluster but I don't find many

overlapping points to do this myself. Do you have any thoughts on the topic?

Have a really good day, Caroline. So I think the first thing that we need to do is

define what a highly sensitive person is and yeah

We're not talking about people who are easy to offend like for the if you if you mention the term highly sensitive person to the layman

they're probably gonna think you're talking about somebody who's like got a hair

trigger yeah easily triggered you can offend them you say it's the wrong thing and

now they're gonna be mad at you for like two weeks and not talk to you.

Right. So that's not what we, that's not what is intended to be implied with the phrase a highly sensitive person.

This has become more of a co-opted technical term and in fact

it's becoming actually sort of a movement almost like you're seeing online a massive

introvert movement. I don't know if you guys have noticed this, but you'll see articles about introverts

all over the place.

And I think it's because there's a segment

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