Living as a Highly Sensitive Person

Making sense of my sensitive life

Photo by Yoann Boyer on Unsplash

I’ve spent most of my life thinking that something was wrong with me. The way I experienced… well, everything seemed different from those around me. In western cultures, “sensitive” is considered a bad word. If I had a quarter for every time I’d been told not to be so “sensitive,” I’d have a butt ton of quarters.