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How to Deal with Sensory Overload as a Sensitive Person

By Jenara Nerenberg — 2020

Sometimes it feels like the world wasn’t designed for sensitive people. Here are ways to take care of yourself.

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An Inside View of Autism

This page is written by Temple Grandin and describes her journey and challenges as a woman affected by autism. Temple outlines the support she received, discusses sensory and auditory difficulties, tactile problems, her squeeze machine and many other topics.

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Temple Grandin
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Misdiagnosed and Misunderstood

There’s a saying in the community: “If you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person.” Virtually any generalization is going to be wrong.

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Mark Leviton, Steve Silberman
2017
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How Latin America’s Obsession With Whiteness Is Hurting Us

Close to 11% of American adults with Hispanic ancestors don’t even identify as Hispanic or Latino.

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Johanna Ferreira
2020
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How ADHD Ignites Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

For people with ADHD or ADD, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria can mean extreme emotional sensitivity and emotional pain—and it may imitate mood disorders with suicidal ideation and manifest as instantaneous rage at the person responsible for causing the pain. Learn more about potential treatments here.

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William Dodson
2021
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Racing into the Future

While we too often and too loudly insist that race does not matter, there is a growing body of research that shows race impacts many of our decisions (many with deadly consequences), and that implicit bias and racial anxiety are likely to be greater for those who cling to the belief of a colorblind...

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john a. powell
2015
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Helping Sensitive Kids Manage Their Emotions

What can parents do to help especially sensitive children learn to manage their emotions and cope?

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Claire Lerner
2018
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6 Emotions that Plague Highly Sensitive People Trying to Grow a Business

For a large part of my life, I wondered why I was so different from everyone else. When I started my first business, I wondered why other entrepreneurs did not seem to struggle with the emotional issues I was having on a daily basis. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I first heard of HSP.

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Kimanzi Constable
2016
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Poetry and High Sensitivity

Pearl S. Buck, (1892-1973), recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938, said the following about Highly Sensitive People: “The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive...."

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Shailendra Chauhan
2013
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5 Superpowers of Highly Sensitive People

"Sensitivity is my tree trunk, my flower stem, and my nucleus. It’s my belly and my heart, and it’s my gently rounded cosmic edge. I have found that it can either lead me to a wild field of flowers, or to my cold, damp little fortress." - Tanya Markul

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Tanya Markul
2019
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Highly Sensitive People

When research psychologist and psychotherapist Elaine Aron published The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, many people felt a jolt of recognition.

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Maggie Oman Shannon
2000
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