robi6icarus 's review for:

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron

3.25

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

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i sadly didn't get as much from this as i had hoped. plenty of what she described did apply to me but there was a lot that i didn't identify with; i always find descriptions of "types" of people to be limiting, which to be fair she acknowledged in the introduction. i think high sensitivity should be more recognized on the neurodivergent spectrum and should be talked about more neutrally/positively as it is in the book. it was also a bit of a slog to get through because its very much a psychological and research-based text which is not really my thing.