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cause the emotional reactivity is
higher,” Aron explains.
7. They’re extremely detail-oriented.
Highly sensitive people are the
first ones to notice the details in
a room, the new shoes that you’re
wearing, or a change in weather.
8. Not all highly sensitive people are
introverts. In fact, about 30 percent
of highly sensitive people are extroverts, according to Aron. She
explains that many times, highly
sensitive people who are also extroverts grew up in a close-knit
community — whether it be a culde-sac, small town, or with a parent who worked as a minister or
rabbi — and thus would interact
with a lot of people.
9. They work well in team environments.
Because highly sensitive people
are such deep thinkers, they make
valuable workers and members of
teams, Aron says. However, they
may be well-suited for positions
in teams where they don’t have
to make the final decision. For instance, if a highly sensitive person
was part of a medical team, he or
she would be valuable in analyzing the pros and cons of a patient
having surgery, while someone else
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Even if there is no ‘right’
or ‘wrong’ decision... highly
sensitive people will still
tend to take longer to choose
because they are weighing
every possible outcome.”
would ultimately make the decision about whether that patient
would receive the surgery.
10. They’re more prone to anxiety or depression (but only if they’ve had a lot of
past negative experiences). “If you’ve
had a fair number of bad experiences, especially early in life, so you
don’t feel safe in the world or you
don’t feel secure at home or ... at
school, your nervous system is set
to ‘anxious,’” Aron says. But that’s
not to say that all highly sensitive
people will go on to have anxiety.
Having a supportive environment
can go a long way to protecting
against this. Parents of highly sensitive children, in particular, need to
“realize these are really great kids,
but they need to be handled in the
right way,” Aron says. “You can’t
over-protect them, but you can’t
under-protect them, either.”
11. That annoying sound is probably
significantly more annoying to a highly
sensitive person. While it’s hard to
say anyone is a fan of annoying
noises, highly sensitive people are