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Alanis Morissette talked about reading this book and being overwhelmed by the recognition of her own experiences as a highly sensitive person, feeling like it explained a lot about her life.
Someone gave me the book, the highly sensitive person book, and when I first got it, you know I was seeing still through the lens of patriarchy and you know extraversion centricity and I didn't actual...
— Episode: 288. Alanis Morissette On Highly Sensiti...
Episode: 288. Alanis Morissette On Highly Sensitive People...
Alanis Morissette talked about reading this book and being overwhelmed by the recognition of her own experiences as a highly sensitive person, feeling like it explained a lot about her life.
Someone gave me the book, the highly sensitive person book, and when I first got it, you know I was seeing still through the lens of patriarchy and you know extraversion centricity and I didn't actually want to read it, and then a few years later there it was and I read it in its entirety and it was just weeping the whole way through, that of recognition and just thought oh this explains a lot.
Then I just talked about rabbit holes. I just wanted to go more deeply and deeply, and a lot of times I would think well, I'm an extrovert because I love humans, I love conversations, I love listening and I've come to see that introverts and highly sensitive and empaths. We light up when we're around like-mindeds. When we're not around like-mindeds we can often be positive check or just more observing, more what sort of people watching. So it depends on context, as always. So for those listening the four characteristics of a highly sensitive person are the depth of processing which means when Abby and I walk into a room and then we leave and I'm like do you not notice the 12,000 things that just happened in that room and she's okay. Abby, are you a non-HSP? Do you identify as non-HSP?
