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

2.0

Honestly the tone and writing often sounded completely bonkers, like referring to HSPs as "royal advisors" or like priests. It was strange and off-putting. I also disliked how she encourages keeping a persona among others, to be "socially acceptable" (cue me, laughing and crying in autism). Then of course it has to be maddeningly heterosexual with an odd aside of a married woman becoming obsessed with an older woman and the incident nearly ruining her marriage. She maintained that she wasn't trying to make it seem like HSPs were better than other people but it really came across that way. There was also this sense that she tried her hardest to distance being an HSP with what is seen as "abnormal" (read: crazy) behavior and I feel like it stigmatizes differences from the norm even more. It's like "I'm sensitive but not crazy like psychos in the loony bin" (and there's a quote from an interviewed HSP who mentions "actual wackos" in an asylum in some vision she had).