Is a Highly Sensitive Person, Neurodivergent?
Published 2024-04-16
I will also talk a little bit about the stigma that is still part of the term neurodiverse/neurodivergent.
As always, let me know your thoughts and experience in the comments below.
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All Comments (9)
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I also think that highly sensitive person is neurodivergent. It just means different and I think it is different in a good way. We used to be the shamans and wisewomen/men of the community because of this sensitivity. Medicalization is trying to define different as wrong but it is not. One just needs to learn how to take one's sensitivities into consideration so that this modern insensitive society and work life doesn't overwhelm us.
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Yes. I agree about the boxes and labels, not always that straight forward, at the same time a bit of help for those on the journey of self knowledge, and understanding of oneself. And again to be careful of not to make it a too big thing and become the "label", balance in all. On my own journey, only took the free online hsp tests, but over an extended period of time (about 3 years) say maybe 3-4 times per year. And came up with between 70-90% likelyhood of beeing hsp in every test. Also the overlap with introversion, about same 70-80%. This was about 6 years ago. Thank you for sharingđź‘Ť
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences. Some people in the autism community are saying HSPs are on the spectrum. That's not necessarily science, but it will be interesting to see how it all changes over time with more research and understanding. The reality is things that are considered disorders now were not necessarily disorders during different times. ADHD and Autism helped tribal communities survive and discover things that neurotypicals never would have been able to do. Some ADHDers were likely the night watch people. And a study just came out saying that they made better foragers. The ability to hyper focus likely helped create a lot of inventions/discoveries over the course of human history. There's a reason these differencess survived in the gene pool for so long. I personally am now identifying as HSP, ADHD-I and Autistic. Figuring out my neurodivergence has allowed me to have more self-compassion and understanding for myself.
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Good video. Totally agree, anxiety/meltdowns/sensory burnout result in HSP aswell as in my case ASD as a result of external stimuli...Subscribed.
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Someone mentioned being Neurodivergent to me this past week. I never heard the term, then this video shows up in my feed.:thanksdoc:
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If it falls outside the norm of how a typical brain is structured through the developmental process I believe that would qualify it as neurodivergent. Autism and ADHD are merely the best examples that people know of. However, these phenomenon were only identified recently and are still very misunderstood.
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I absolutely agree that HSP is a neurodivergence, this is a topic I'm quite passionate about and I think it would geeatly help the HSP community if we finally openly acknowledged that we are neurodivergent. There are so many highly sensitive people who are suffering, because our brain works differently, but we keep trying to funtion the way neurotypical people do. If I'd say I was autistic, people would understand that I need certain accomodations, but if I say I'm HSP, most people have no idea what I'm talking about (not to say that in many languages HSP is translated as "hypersensitive", because it's hard to translate highly sensitive, and that doesn't help either). Anyway, if we'd acknowledge that HSP is under the neurodivergent umbrella, things might change for the better.
