{"id":11274,"date":"2014-01-09T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11274"},"modified":"2014-01-08T16:19:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T21:19:04","slug":"im-sensitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11274","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m <em>Sensitive<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate the way it sounds, &#8220;I&#8217;m highly sensitive&#8221; but that doesn&#8217;t make it less true. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsperson.com\/pages\/test.htm\">online questionnaire<\/a> you can take, and for me, some of the questions are gimmies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am particularly sensitive to the effects of caffeine.<br \/>\nI startle easily.<br \/>\nI make a point to avoid violent movies and TV shows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hell, I&#8217;ve been teased about all those things for years. &#8220;GOD NO! Don&#8217;t let Michelle drink coffee!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some of the things don&#8217;t fit. I don&#8217;t see myself as more sensitive to pain, but I am super bothered by some physical sensations, like itchy clothes or the seam on my socks being in the wrong place. And &#8220;I find it unpleasant to have a lot going on at once.&#8221; is false, perhaps because I&#8217;m simply used to chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Does this discovery matter in the long run?<\/p>\n<p>Not really. <\/p>\n<p>But it is interesting. And I found some <a href=\"http:\/\/lonerwolf.com\/highly-sensitive-person-hsp\/\">interesting suggestions on how to deal with being sensitive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Realize that you&#8217;re the one and only master over yourself, and no one can have power over you unless you let them.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t take things personally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both of those are easier said that done, and are things I have a very hard time with, but, as with many things, it sometimes helps to know that it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m crazy, it&#8217;s just that I react differently than many people.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad, just different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate the way it sounds, &#8220;I&#8217;m highly sensitive&#8221; but that doesn&#8217;t make it less true. There&#8217;s an online questionnaire you can take, and for me, some of the questions are gimmies: I am particularly sensitive to the effects of caffeine. I startle easily. I make a point to avoid violent movies and TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-non-sequiturs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2VQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}