Sensitivity Stigma: Breaking Down
5 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Two speakers discuss how society stigmatizes emotional sensitivity, labeling highly sensitive people as

Two speakers discuss how society stigmatizes emotional sensitivity, labeling highly sensitive people as
It's pushing back against that, that stigmatism of, well, you're just too much, or, well, you're just so sensitive and, and you can't handle life. No, we can handle life. But the reality is, is that we handle it differently. And we have to understand those big emotions. How are they coming in?
I think the other part of this and where RSD is a negative is when we get stuck in it.
Yes.
So many clients that come that their ADHD, autism, chronic illness, whatever is the excuse of why they can't do anything because they've been told they can't. And they get stuck in that rejection sensitivity and getting stuck in the negative phases of that and not seeing that there is— I hate to call ADHD, autism, whatever, a superpower because it's not unless you have—
It doesn't always feel that way.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, it doesn't always feel like a superpower. And sometimes when people say that, and this is my own, and take it for what it is, sometimes I feel like they're saying that and it's a minimization.

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