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<\/a>Where would the world be without music or art? Even more to the point, where would the world be without love? Where would the world be if the high sensitives were revered for their complex, often misunderstood, approach to life? What if, instead of being told to \u201cbuck up\u201d and \u201cget it together,\u201d we were offered support through the thoughtful interpretation of our \u201cshyness\u201d or our \u201cweakness\u201d or our \u201cneediness\u201d?<\/p>\n
In 2020 in a \u201cTalks at Google,\u201d<\/a> Alane Freund, LMFT, says, \u201cHighly Sensitive People often think before they act. Even the kindergartner who shows up to school the very first day will stop in the doorway and look around the classroom. \u2018What\u2019s over there? Who\u2019s playing over there? Hmm, I smell something. Is there cooking? Am I going to cook?\u2019 \u2026 Compared to the kindergartner who just runs in and starts playing with the trucks right away. The teacher might assume that kindergartner who hesitates is shy. But what if the parent says, \u2018No, he\u2019s not shy. He just likes to get the lay of the land first.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n What do you think that child would take from such an interaction?<\/p>\n To be labeled \u201cshy\u201d can stigmatize our capabilities and abilities for life, while being labeled \u201cthoughtful\u201d versus \u201cimpulsive\u201d or \u201cconfident\u201d can help us feel valued for what we bring to the table.<\/p>\n When I think back to the way both my children cried and cried and cried, the way their sleep patterns were constantly changing, and the way their reactions seemed over the top to sound and taste and touch, I wish I\u2019d known then what I know now. Sensory overstimulation is one of the most challenging aspects of being an HSP\u2014if<\/em> the people around you are attempting to push you, a round peg, into the square hole that is the rest of the world.<\/p>\n Next time someone you know is \u201cconfused,\u201d suggest they stop and question what was happening in that moment be<\/p>\n fore their apparent lapse. For me, confusion is simply an indicator that my IGS is kicking in\u2014that my Intuitive Guidance System<\/a> is pointing me in a direction and I\u2019m not paying attention. It may feel like confusion and look like confusion, but sometimes what looks like a duck and acts like a duck is not really a duck at all.<\/p>\nLabels don’t help<\/h3>\n
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