How sensitive are you?

[Crowsie]

I'm so sensitive that I fell in love with Dom on first sight because his gooey, tearful eyes resonated deep within my soul. His default expression is exactly what I feel like on the inside.

Oddly enough, other people do not incite my sensitivity. I could care less if someone's upset at me or yelling at me. I actually like arguing with other people. However, I manage to make myself cry all the time by overthinking about sad or worrying things. Or looking at cute animals or babies. Or praise. Praise makes me tear up like nothing else and I could never understand why.

 

[amemome]

Super emotional. Even MORE emotional when I'm nearing my period... yay hormones. I cry super easily and it doesn't take much to set me off. Recently it was a Garfield comic.

 

[tumut]

Probably not emotional enough. Idk I think its super funny when people cry, like they look so ugly I cant help but laugh.

Im like your average anime badboi who scoff and has tragic past uwu

 

[_Rainy_]

I’m very sensitive, I also cry when I’m mad. If you’ve angered me enough I’ll let you have it, but there will be tears running down my face while I do it.

 

[Cosmic_Crossfade]

Sometimes people just stop for a second and think about things, and one of the things I thought about today, is how sensitive people either are or aren't. So many people seem very emotionally sensitive, but there are also a ton of people who seem to have no conscience whatsoever. I feel like I rarely meet anyone who is a happy medium. Forgive me if my poll choices are not broad enough, but how sensitive do you think you are?

I for one, think I am a very sensitive person, who can get my feelings hurt rather easily. However, I don't share how I feel when I'm actively hurt. But there are also many times, where I have no conscience whatsoever. I don't share the same amount of empathy or pity that many people do. People don't like me as much for that reason, but I don't like other people very much either... I can be very selective about these things. I don't want you all to think that I really dislike anyone here though, despite what I previously said. Dealing with people on the internet is much different than dealing with people in real life, for me, and I happen to enjoy interacting with all of you here. I hated just about everyone I knew from school though...

Feel free to share on your thoughts, opinions, and feelings as I have. Please be respectful if you wish to discuss. I don't know how active I will be throughout the thread, since I will also be playing Skyrim

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Sorry, the poll just became available :T

The term "sensitivity" can at times often be surrounded by the stigma of negativity, causing the person in question to think that one who experiences emotional responses on the daily must be someone who is in most cases, "incapable" of understanding logical reasoning and can't be viewed as someone with a valid opinion because of the way one may respond to a situation in a very "logic based" world that goes by "I think" vs "I feel". Sadly, this causes many of those who are sensitive to certain material such as subjects, debates or conversations, to feel like outcasts and not feel welcomed by society to embrace who they are for the fear of the way people will often judge them or put them down for their state of being.

I knew from a very young age that I was a highly sensitive person. In not only cases where mere words were exchanged or even by watching sensitive material on television that would often cause me much distress (such as the news) but along with the energies that surrounded me that I often associated myself with growing up too.

Whether it be from family or friends or even total random strangers I met, I just knew that I could somehow "feel" that something was off energetically if said person(s) were giving off a bad vibe, which in gave me much stress and anxiety growing up and because of this, I didn't personally have a clear answer on as to why I felt this way causing me to feel different or much like a black sheep among my family and peers. I was very reclusive and needed time to myself. Negativity was something that drained me constantly and had impacted my health very much so and I couldn't figure out why.

As I had grown, I was able to understand myself better in order to "fit in" and learned that feeling is just as important as anything else because of being human. Being born with empathy does not make one weak. In fact, it makes you a healer and an observer to those who try to hide their "weakness" on the daily because of the world shunning emotions in most cases. I have learned over the course of years that duality exists within this world and that feelings were no different.

Sun and moon, light and dark, warm and cold, everything in life correlates to balance and that everything in life has opposites for said balance. When someone who is very "logic based" and who expresses very little emotion meets somebody who expresses empathy but is less grounded it brings balance to both parties as each are now portraying traits needed for duality. Nothing is wrong with feeling compassion or nurture for something. In a world that is dark, cold and very cruel, people who feel and who can often understand human nature are the healers of the world.

 

[Mayor Jack]

I'm pretty sensitive but I try not to show it. I used to be a lot more sensitive but I'm getting better now.

 

[CasualWheezer]

I'm actually really sensitive but I try not to show it too many times.

 

[Manah]

So sensitive I'm in a permanent state of semi-dissociation to keep myself alive.

Peopke think high empathy is a good thing, but it sucks. It doesn't do anything if trying to care about things always leads to an overload that results in total shutdown where I can literally look at someone getting hurt and feel nothing but static noise. It's horrifying.

Too much of a good thing is poison, empathy on its own doesn't do much and can get in the way of actual compassion.

 

[SublimeDonut]

These days I've been thinking about this very thing because my friend recently lost two dogs just after she bought them (she had to give one away because it barked too loudly and I don't know what happened to the second, she doesn't want to talk about him). She was inconsolable and skipped school for a week, though she barely knew the dogs. Meanwhile when my grandmother and another close friend died, I shrugged it off immediately. I'm honestly a bit shocked at how little it affected me? Am I an ******* for not crying or anything? I voted stone cold. idk

 

[eseamir]

I am a big water baby if you look at my birth chart (pisces sun, cancer moon, pisces rising for anyone curious) and it means that I can be Super sensitive basically all the time but especially when the moon is in pisces or there is a full moon!! I'm also one of those people who cries when I'm frustrated or upset so people Never take me seriously which is super annoying :/

 

[Neb]

It takes years for me to get over insults. I even ruminate on people who have glared at me for months or years.

At the same time I rarely cry. Emotional movies and TV shows have never made me shed a tear. The only time it happens is when an animal or person I’m close to passes away. Otherwise I’m basically a robot.

 

[eggie_]

i’m super super super sensitive, but i don’t always like to show it! i’m only really emotional around my family and people i really trust, it takes me a while to warm up to people because of my sensitivity

 

[Bluebellie]

I’m a little sensitive. I can usually hide my feelings, but when I’m frustrated , the urge to cry is bad. I hate that. Then when I start crying it gets me even more frustrated. It’s not like an ugly cry sobbing drama though, just silent tears.

that being said, I don’t remember the last time I cried. It just happens in big confrontations or high stress situations. Mostly I’m very good at keeping down emotions.

 

[Kattea]

I only get my feelings hurt if someone says something that is personally hurtful to me. I have some friends that get their feelings hurt if they don't get invited to things, which I don't have the energy to. I see that as spontaneous plans with whoever is around at the time, not a personal attack towards those who aren't.

 

[-Lumi-]

I’m incredibly sensitive, honestly. It’s really frustrating and I think it goes hand in hand with me being a nervous person. I get overwhelmed easily and when I do my bodies reaction seems to be oh, guess I’ll cry now. Which is super frustrating.

Also because I’m so nervous I tend to overthink people’s reactions & how they’re speaking since I’m worried about upsetting people. Is what it is I suppose but I wish I wasn’t so sensitive and easily hurt

 

[Bluelady]

I used to have a good poker face all the time before depression got to me towards the end of my college days. Now, I feel more and I hate that I can’t mask my emotions as well as before.

 

[RedPanda]

I’m pretty sensitive but perhaps not extremely so? Though maybe I am. I can’t watch horror movies at all because I feel so bad for the victims that it traumatizes me for days after. I cry pretty easily in movies and stuff. But at the same time I can hold my feelings together when I need to, like for work or whatever.

 

[SlEEPYTEARRS]

im usually an emotional mess, though i may have some undiagnosed issues (i already have enough diagnosed as it is)

i was always told by ex-friends that i was too invested in stuff i like because i would like...cry when the jurassic park theme played or music from the godzilla movies or the bambi soundtrack. but i cry at these because its stuff that means a lot to me (also the bambi soundtrack is just gorgeous)

i actually brought this up to my gf yesterday because static at the countdown told me "im glad your smile was the first thing i saw this year" and i instantly started tearing up because i dont have many people besides her that tell me stuff like that

 

[shion]

i wear my heart on my sleeve for sure

 

[Faux]

Felt like I should vote for the first one since even people I care about can call me horrible things to my face and it won't actually like, make me feel like I'm a bad person or care, but it DOES make me pretty mad and I might eye roll and scoff about it for hours lol.

My mom's called me lazy and disgusting for years bc I have ADHD + depression which just leads to hoarder level tendencies, and an inability to really keep clean without feeling extremely overwhelmed. I'm so used to all of it now I just don't really take it as a truth anymore, but I do find it absolutely ludicrous she can't comprehend anything outside of her own little neurotypical bubble.

So I wouldn't say it hurts me, but it does affect my day. It just annoys me that people are so flipping ignorant to anyone but themselves and everyone else is wrong.

I otherwise love confrontation and debate, so.