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High-Functioning versus High-Sensitive: Are they mutually exclusive?<\/h1>\n

Just because someone is high-functioning doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re not highly sensitive. All it really means, at least if they\u2019re in a healthy state of mind, body, and soul, is that they\u2019ve somehow learned to direct their sensitivities and kick them up a notch or two.<\/p>\n

Anderson Cooper is a journalist, and a great one. But he\u2019s also, apparently, an emotional and loving father. You have to imagine he\u2019s pretty adept at organizing his life, and was probably a darn good student as well. All great qualities, but nothing to do with the qualities of being an HSP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Anderson<\/a>
Are high-sensitivity and high-functioning mutually exclusive?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Could Anderson Cooper be one of US? Could he be an HSP?<\/h2>\n

I think he might be. How do I know? Because\u2014though I\u2019m the first to admit that I\u2019m no Anderson Cooper<\/a> in a zillion different ways!\u2014I am, and have been, high-functioning for a large percentage of my life.<\/p>\n

But the real point I\u2019m trying to make is that being an HSP does not preclude being deliberately, determinedly, and successfully high-functioning.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, just because you\u2019re high-functioning does not necessarily mean you\u2019re happy or even content. It certainly doesn\u2019t mean self-satisfied, self-reliant, or full of self-worth.<\/p>\n

All it means is that you have the skills to do whatever it is you want or have chosen or sometimes have been coerced to do well enough to get the job done. You could be a dishwasher or you could be a museum curator. It doesn\u2019t necessarily mean you\u2019re convinced you\u2019re good at it or feel good doing it. It\u2019s even possible you suffer from Imposter Syndrome, where, no matter how good you are at what you do, you still feel inadequate.<\/p>\n

Ever wonder why actors tend toward screwed up personal lives?<\/h3>\n

We usually attribute their \u201cproblems\u201d to too much fame and fortune. And, certainly, without those things they wouldn\u2019t be in the situation they\u2019re in.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s more to it than that. There\u2019s also the obvious fact that so many of them are highly sensitive people.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine being an HSP who knows you take on other people\u2019s energy, but don\u2019t know what to do about it? Can you imagine being on a movie set with hundreds of movie people all milling about doing their jobs\u2014many of them interacting with you\u2014for hours and hours every single day? Can you imagine what it\u2019s like to feel the feelings of the character you\u2019re acting without feeling some kind of aftermath of leftover energy trails?<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Sure, I\u2019ve worked as a musician in orchestras; a human resource trainer in corporate America; a counselor for teenagers. But at no point did I recognize that the tremendous weight I carried around was due to all the energy of others flooding my being.<\/p>\n

Sadly, even once I had an inkling that was what was going on, I still had no idea what to do about it.<\/p>\n

Sometimes people seem to figure it out on their own.<\/h3>\n

Anderson Cooper seems to have figured it out on his own. Not that we have any idea what it\u2019s like being Gloria Vanderbilt\u2019s son, born and bred in his unusually eccentric circumstances. Maybe he\u2019s had years of therapy, right? I mean, who can say? We surely don\u2019t know how much of what we see is an act, being that he\u2019s a TV personality and all.<\/p>\n

But when I heard him talk about the loss of his brother to suicide and the recent death of his mother and how he wants nothing more than to pass on to his children who these people were to him \u201cwithout it being cloaked in sadness,\u201d I felt his willingness to dip into the pain of the loss and rise out again through love for his children.<\/p>\n

We are not all Anderson Coopers.<\/p>\n

We are not all super smart or super rich or super talented.<\/p>\n

Yet, as HSPs, we are ALL fully capable of bringing out the best in ourselves by elevating the sensitivities we have so they serve us and all of humanity.<\/p>\n

\"Elevate
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