Do you ever find things so disturbing/upsetting that you have trouble speaking?

If I think its B.S. I most likely will hang my sleeve out there. Whatever!
 

Highly Sensitive Person, or HSP, is a term coined by psychologist Elaine Aron. According to Aron’s theory, HSPs are a subset of the population who are high in a personality trait known as sensory-processing sensitivity, or SPS. Those with high levels of SPS display increased emotional sensitivity, stronger reactivity to both external and internal stimuli—pain, hunger, light, and noise—and a complex inner life. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/highly-sensitive-person
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Nathan said:
For me- no, but just off the top of my head I wonder if people prone to HSP as a class of people might overlap with the subset of people that suffer from Fibromyalgia and/or Lupus. ?
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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.
 
jpstrap said:
https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/03/04/5-ways-feminism-has-ruined-america
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This article was a commentary on a book published by Phyllis Schlafly in 2011. For all of her blowing and going about how feminism ruined the world, Schlafly was hypocrisy personified.

She had a law degree, ran (and lost) for Congress and president (ditto). She simultaneously benefited by the feminists who paved the way for her and denigrated them. Talk about some self-hatred going on...
 
The Link Between High Sensitivity and Narcissism
... and how to approach a hypersensitive narcissist.
You might be able to imagine someone with these qualities from your own life. Perhaps you have an acquaintance whom you would describe as “fragile” and, as a result, constantly expects to be treated with the softest of kid gloves. You tiptoe around this person, afraid to upset them by placing too many demands on them. Rather than being upset at themselves for their ultra-sensitivity, though, they seem to take pride in having this unique attribute that they believe allows them to enjoy a richer inner life than the average person.
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...sensitive-person-really-a-narcissist-at-heart
 
jpstrap said:
We Can't Have A Feminist Future Without Abolishing the Family
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The article (incorrectly) says, "Most women want and need upright, well-adjusted, dependable men to serve as co-anchors of healthy and happy families. The feminist movement was deeply misguided to take aim at marriage. Far from oppressing women, it offers a safe foundation for a full life."

The feminist movement did NOT take aim at marriage in general. It took aim at offering women freedom from marriages with unequal power equations, domestic violence, unhappy marriages, and golden-handcuff marriages where they were financially trapped.
 
dilettante said:
The Link Between High Sensitivity and Narcissism
... and how to approach a hypersensitive narcissist.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...sensitive-person-really-a-narcissist-at-heart
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Good read. I think this is another key sentence in addition to the excerpt you posted: "...particularly if they start to put this hypersensitivity on a pedestal when they think about themselves." From personal experience, there are some positives. HSPs have a keen response to beauty in nature, music etc and that part is kinda fun.

I think the narcissism comes into play with the way some HSPs use the word "empath" to describe themselves as almost mystical people who are able to see into the souls of others when all that it really is is a heightened ability to pick up on others' emotions. It's become a social media trendy thing to claim which further reinforces narcissistic behaviors.

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Never cared for the stooges. Worse were the Young Rascals. I just never found them funny.
Abbott and Costello were more to my liking.
 
StarSong said:
The article (incorrectly) says, "Most women want and need upright, well-adjusted, dependable men to serve as co-anchors of healthy and happy families. The feminist movement was deeply misguided to take aim at marriage. Far from oppressing women, it offers a safe foundation for a full life."

The feminist movement did NOT take aim at marriage in general. It took aim at offering women freedom from marriages with unequal power equations, domestic violence, unhappy marriages, and golden-handcuff marriages where they were financially trapped.
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Like many good causes, at times the Feminist Movement got hihacked by extremists full of bitterness who had an axe to grind. It’s important for the true believers to speak out against the hijackers. I can think of a few movements that got away from reality and ended up a collection of wack jobs with crazy ideas.

What helped the feminist movement was the fact that most women are not willing to throw their sons, brothers, husband, fathers, and grandfathers under the bus to make the extremists happy.
 
Brookswood said:
Never cared for the stooges. Worse were the Young Rascals. I just never found them funny.
Abbott and Costello were more to my liking.
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Abbott and Costello? Really? Gosh then you might love those Ritz Brothers, hmm? :ROFLMAO:

I think some of our preferences come from our ages when we experienced a resurgence in the old shorts and features. But it does say one thing: we vary in what we find most amusing.

I think MST3K and RiffTrax are hilarious, while others seems to barely know of them at all. Even the Monty Python franchise's humor leaves them cold, much less things like Shaun of the Dead or Friday.

SF seems to be jam-packed with testy old sticks-in-the-mud who take themselves too seriously. Maybe the demographic runs older, well into the Senior Center set north of 75?

I might have to turn to things like FB groups to find people a little more like-minded. I can only talk about the weather, my aches and pains, and crap I've bought just so much.

I know, I know... don't let the screen door hit me in the ass. :ROFLMAO:
 
Brookswood said:
Like many good causes, at times the Feminist Movement got hihacked by extremists full of bitterness who had an axe to grind. It’s important for the true believers to speak out against the hijackers. I can think of a few movements that got away from reality and ended up a collection of wack jobs with crazy ideas.
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Hijacked? Sure a few man-haters probably showed up now and then, but hijacked? By whom and when? Or even a for instance would be helpful.
 
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dilettante said:
Abbott and Costello? Really? Gosh then you might love those Ritz Brothers, hmm? :ROFLMAO:

I think some of our preferences come from our ages when we experienced a resurgence in the old shorts and features. But it does say one thing: we vary in what we find most amusing.

I think MST3K and RiffTrax are hilarious, while others seems to barely know of them at all. Even the Monty Python franchise's humor leaves them cold, much less things like Shaun of the Dead or Friday.

SF seems to be jam-packed with testy old sticks-in-the-mud who take themselves too seriously. Maybe the demographic runs older, well into the Senior Center set north of 75?

I might have to turn to things like FB groups to find people a little more like-minded. I can only talk about the weather, my aches and pains, and crap I've bought just so much.

I know, I know... don't let the screen door hit me in the ass. :ROFLMAO:
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I think age has less to do with humor than intelligence.
 
6'4", wearing a skimpy blue jean miniskirt. 40's, I think basketball or Rugby girl.
Later at the self-Check out there he was having all kinds of trouble & the
Black Guy there helping her. With a deep mama sings bass voice she keeps
asking the managers help. He's rolling his eyes and stuff. What am I thinking.
He ? ... Her ? ... That's what I was thinking. "JHC' "
 
StarSong said:
This article was a commentary on a book published by Phyllis Schlafly in 2011. For all of her blowing and going about how feminism ruined the world, Schlafly was hypocrisy personified.

She had a law degree, ran (and lost) for Congress and president (ditto). She simultaneously benefited by the feminists who paved the way for her and denigrated them. Talk about some self-hatred going on...
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Didn't she have a gay son? She did not take his feelings into account.
 
Alizerine said:
I think age has less to do with humor than intelligence.
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I find age, experience and education influence what amuses us. As I mentioned in an earlier post, little children find potty humor hilarious, but adults tend to be less enthralled with poop jokes. A sense of humor develops over time. Shock value humor is an early route that most eventually abandon in favor of more sophisticated jokes.

Seven year olds won't understand most of Jimmy Kimmel's jokes - they don't have the context. A teenager might, but teens' interests tend to differ from Kimmel's target audience, so they'd rather tune into Adam Sandler type movies. Those land well on the adolescent demographic, less squarely on adults over 40.

I cast no aspersions on his movies - or even on poop jokes. Young audiences have as much right to be amused as any other.
 
Sandler relevant today? You might be out of touch. I'm not sure he means much to youth today anymore than Andy Hardy flicks or Groucho Marx.
 
I used to watch everything Jerry Lewis did. He Teamed with Dean Martin. Things changed.
Than the break up, & Jerry seamed to be a failure at the Serious Jerry Side. The Movie where
He worked at a Department Store was hilarious.

I got tired of Red Skelton when I was older too!

I never tired of the guy eating his shoe, (starvation) in the Yukon ... ... Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton too!
I did tire of the Three Stooges. Our Gang just grew up too quick.

But you know its the Current stuff the youth get.

 
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Adam Sandler's last movie, I think it was, which featured his real daughters & possibly real wife, can't recall, titled Bat Mitzvah was so bloody awful that except for B'nai B'rith Girls I can't imagine who liked it or why. Unwatchable!
 

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