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@Nathan !
Even though HSP isn't yet an official diagnosis, many with autoimmune disorders have traits of highly sensitive people. And interestingly, similar traits have been identified in over a 100 other species. It's definitely evolutionary though traumatic life experiences worsen the hightenend senses for many HSPs.
In my case, my therapist in my 20s and my new recent one haven't identified any source of early trauma other than some early childhood medical issues. The HSP personality were there from birth before the health issues according to my mom. It was very hard for my parents to get me to sleep from the first, there were even nights that my mom said I screamed as though terrifed of going to sleep.
I (and thankfully my current therapist) believe in genetic memory and think there may be inherited traumatic memory in addition to HSP being partly personality traits. There are nightmares I've had through the years that can't be explained by anything I've experienced or even read about or viewed. One was a Roman soldier bashing my baby to death. I have always avoided violent film and literature so that very real seeming dream isn't based on anything I've read or seen and is definitily not something my parents or anyone I stayed with would've watched when I was a child.
