if you were a sensitive child - Forum

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kagura wrote:
well not i don't think my emotions are as intense as they were when i was a kid, but i guess i'm still more senstitive and intense than most adults? at least i've been told that is very rare to see an adult person who gets as excited over smallest things as i do
and i'm always like yea it's nice but imagine when i have anxiety, it's as intense as my exitement

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cobain wrote:
just as sensitive now as i was then lol

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no not really

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im still sensetive now

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MasileinDE wrote:
no, I just learned to better manage them
I don't get myself into situations anymore where I know I will be overwhelmed and if there is something I know I can't skip on, I know how to arrange my life in a way that I can take some time to calm down afterwards.
For the most part, I also learned how to digest a bunch of the emotions that make me struggle the most in a way that doesn't affect all my relationships with other people too much (because let's be real, it's just so much work to be around someone who's struggling with their emotions and you do get shunned for not being able to reign it in). So i have my coping mechanisms. Which occasionally will evolve into a 3week bender of anxiety and stress.
I just learned how to recognise if something was too much for me before it became actually too much and then learned how to get myself out of these situations and how to center myself again.

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Laboratory wrote:
I mean I'm not as sensitive now && my reactions aren't as ........ crazy? lmao. But I am definitely still overly sensitive and react strongly sometimes n stuff, definitely don't miss the extend it used to be to lmao, caused me more pain than anything else to be the kid who always cried hhhh

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remains wrote:
no i just became more sensitive

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DEITY wrote:
No I just became better at hiding it

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literally just come to the realization that most of my feelings growing up was invalidated and that's likely why I stopped sharing anything and just sucking it up for everything I didn't like because at least I ain't dying u know : )

but like I don't dislike myself or how I react because I know where it is coming from and I know often that these are things I value highly, and that I value the ability to let myself feel it and move through it instead of pushing it down. But yeah, I have a long journey of learning not to push through everything and swallowing my feelings and like.. communicating. still suck at the last one there. But also.. there is a time and place for things. I cannot go having breakdowns at fieldtrips.

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OceanWitch wrote:
I think I'm still as sensitive as I was when I was a kid, but I've learned how to mask those feelings really well until I can find a place where I can let it out. Doesn't always work though!! Suppose that's what happens when you maybe possibly have undiagnosed ASD....... lol.

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Melody wrote:
i have like sensory related problems which i don't think can b "removed" so
as far as mental sensitivity goes, then, it has both gotten better and worse during the rollercoaster of a life i've lived. meds have mostly rendered me numb to emotions tho so i don't rly feel anything except anxiety n sadness which usually arise when i interact with life outside my home

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Utdatert wrote:
I am highly sensitive, and at some things ive lost it, but I am still extremely sensitive for others feelings and reactions, and i can sense if my friends, family or colleagues has a bad day long before they even say it.
I also still have a tendency to cry over music that I find beautifu.l. I also still have sensory issues, especially with wool on the skin and the sound of isophore. i HATE it.

So I guess at some points I still have it.

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Melody wrote:
i have like sensory related problems which i don't think can b "removed" so
as far as mental sensitivity goes, then, it has both gotten better and worse during the rollercoaster of a life i've lived. meds have mostly rendered me numb to emotions tho so i don't rly feel anything except anxiety n sadness which usually arise when i interact with life outside my home

also my life went shit v early on so i don't think i ever learned to feel stuff most ppl do, bc as far as i'm aware i've always been like this and ppl call me weird for the way i think abt things. like i don't know how i am "supposed to feel" versus the way i feel rn -- this to answer the question of if "i lost it or if i miss it"

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literally just come to the realization that most of my feelings growing up was invalidated and that's likely why I stopped sharing anything and just sucking it up for everything I didn't like because at least I ain't dying u know : )

but like I don't dislike myself or how I react because I know where it is coming from and I know often that these are things I value highly, and that I value the ability to let myself feel it and move through it instead of pushing it down. But yeah, I have a long journey of learning not to push through everything and swallowing my feelings and like.. communicating. still suck at the last one there. But also.. there is a time and place for things. I cannot go having breakdowns at fieldtrips.

ill never get why people have the urge to invalidate others who feel strongly and use their capacity to feel like a weapon against them as if its some huuuge inconvenience that someones emotions are visible and powerful?

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Hufsa wrote:
ive been thinking about this a lot and the more i do, the more i want to punch something
i was honestly curoious cuase i realized how normal it had become for me to numb my emotions down(i have been o mood stabs tbf, but even before them). just realized how exceptionally dumb the world is w this. and its so sad to see people share similar experiences on this topic.