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— is relatively common, with as
many as one in five people possessing it. Aron, who has written multiple studies and books
on high sensitivity, including The
Highly Sensitive Person, also developed a self-test (which you
can take here) to help you determine if you are highly sensitive.
While recent interest in introversion — driven largely by highprofile publications on the subject, including Susan Cain’s book
Quiet — has brought more awareness to personality traits that
value less stimulation and higher
sensitivity, Aron notes that highly
sensitive people still tend to be
considered the “minority.”
But “minority” doesn’t mean
bad — in fact, being highly sensitive carries a multitude of positive
characteristics. Read on for some
of the commonalities shared by
highly sensitive people.
1. They feel more deeply. One of
the hallmark characteristics of
highly sensitive people is the
ability to feel more deeply than
their less-sensitive peers. “They
like to process things on a deep
level,” Ted Zeff, Ph.D., author of
The Highly Sensitive Person’s
Survival Guide and other books
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Zeff says that highly
sensitive men he interviewed
from other countries — such
as Thailand and India —
were rarely or never teased,
while highly sensitive men
he interv