Are You Guilty of Making These 5 HSP Excuses?

HSPs, listen up. It’s time to be honest about how you’re living your trait. By now you know that high sensitivity, or sensory processing sensitivity, has some very distinct characteristics that make you unique. You have predictable sensitivities that are predictable gifts and needs. But have you ever considered that you may also be using those gifts and needs to make HSP excuses ?

I know, it sounds harsh. And as a Highly Sensitive Person myself, I detest conflict as much as the next Highly Sensitive.

But hear me out. And trust that my question is rooted in a desire us all to magnifencely live our sensitivity.

Redefining Your Past in the Context of High Sensitivity

Many of us came understand our high sensitivity late-ish in the game. After all, Dr. Elaine Aron didn’t publish her first book on sensitivity until 1996. By that point, we were adolescents or adults, plunging off the high-dive into a new, enlightened understanding of ourselves.

A very different experience from those growing up or parenting with at least familiarity with the concept of high sensitivity.

If you were a late arrival, as I was, you know what I’m talking about. Your entire life up to that point came rushing to the fore with all sorts…