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Highly Sensitive Person
Bunks
Australia Veteran
Hi all - the group leader at a Zen meditation class I recently went to raised the concept of the Highly Sensitive Person.
We all undertook the test in the link below. I got 11 but the group leader said she ticks every box! She told us she was ecstatic when she discovered this as it answered a lot of questions and confusion she had in her life. My wife is also that way inclined - particularly the noise disturbance and she really struggles when she's hungry.
http://www.hsperson.com/pages/test.htm
Try it out if you get a chance.
We all undertook the test in the link below. I got 11 but the group leader said she ticks every box! She told us she was ecstatic when she discovered this as it answered a lot of questions and confusion she had in her life. My wife is also that way inclined - particularly the noise disturbance and she really struggles when she's hungry.
http://www.hsperson.com/pages/test.htm
Try it out if you get a chance.
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However, if fault there be, I believe it's not in ourselves but in the world. There's way too much noise and rudeness out there and it's getting worse and worse. Trash "music" and constant chatter on cell-phones is creating more and more. You can't blame a person for wanting to retreat from this manic jungle.
In much the same way that building new roads brings more development and usage so that the roads soon need to be widened to allow for increased traffic, this constant "need" to be in constant touch with whoever by cellphone is creating a new environment which makes the more secluded ways of yesterday unthinkable and unacceptable to the masses.
What a noisy, noisy world.
To be able to deal with it we must sit for a meditation period of at least 30 minutes each day —unless of course we're very busy!
(In which case we must sit for a full hour.)
Long ago I learned to doubt the efficacy of such tests...at least for me. I realized that since I see myself as a rather middle of the road type of person (not necessarily anything about Buddhism) that I would subconsciously decided to rarely check any extremes in a survey.
My son's autistic and what's interesting is that a great many items listed could very well be stimulus traits of autism.
Not sure how accurate/legit this test might be...
When Guinea Pigging for Mensa, I was told that neither my left & right brain hemisphere showed enough initiative to be predictable.,
Now that, was insensitive?
I tend to score within the autism spectrum on *some* indexes, and have a daughter and grandson with PDD NOS (pervasive developmental disorder, a 'catch all' within the autism spectrum). My daughter and I are 'fully functional' in the big bad world, seek relationships and easily 'read' other people's nonverbals. But we both hide at the end of the day, and if possible, hide ALL DAY in the perfect predictability of our nests.
Part of my journey into practice is finding that Refuge within myself instead of relying upon controlling my environment. Huh, a huge part of my practice.
The "self test" is just the green questions which actually drops my score to 1.
lol To be 1 with everything.
Anyways how do you score yourself? I dont see anything but if 14 or more your sensitive and a reference to a larger quiz with a 1-7 rating but no link.
Edit: taking hows advice about green only, i have a score of 3, which is good because the rest of the questions seems like someone with high anxiety lol.
It's a good point you raise though. Sometimes we use the word "sensitive" to describe someone who generally has a low self esteem and gets either depressed or defensive if their actions are questioned in any way. I can certainly relate to that when I was growing up!
This test is obviously for a different type of sensitivity though.
But a couple of the questions seem a little repetitive, and just couched in different ways....
They provide a double -checking mechanism built into the process.
Small world, eh?
My (soon to be) 4 year old daughter has just been diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.
One of my best mates and his son have mild autism as well.
Fairly common diagnosis these days...