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Are You an HSP? (free online test)

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Nope. I appear to be made of stone - I think I checked about 5 of the boxes, and two of them were a half-hearted yes at best.

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I didn't even have to click the link to know that I am.

JohannBessler said:
Being an HSP is a curse, in my opinion.
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I'm inclined to disagree. Whereas due to a higher baseline state of arousal, this sensitivity can result in accelerated over-stimulation, it also affords us the ability to analyse sensory / environmental information more assiduously. Because of this subconscious ability, a lot of HSPs tend to have a strong sense of 'intuition'. This knack lends itself greatly to empathy and nurturing - and I refuse to believe that an acute understanding of others is a curse. Sure, I'm often quiet in large groups and extravagant social situations, but to me, a strong innate ability to feel the pain of others, and to empathise and comfort them is well worth not being considered the life of the party.

I'm curious to hear what aspects of being an HSP you deem to be undesirable, Johann - because I think that with the right perspective, the 'short-comings' are so easily outweighed by the advantages.
 
I checked 19.

There seemed to be a strong correlation for people with autism.
 
ticked 3, generally it would be 2 as I have changed a lot since childhood (was shy, and a tad depressed as a kidlet).
 
So I figured I'd score about 5.
 
Nope.I guess not..I really couldn't check any of them off..I work in loud environments 4 days a week and drive cab on the weekend nights.I'm not sure how this means I can't empathize with the suffering of othes.I usually seem to get a quick read on people and have a knack for spotting bullshit from across the street.
 
Hard-up1 said:
I don't believe the test is reliable. Too many statements were arbitrary or not true indicators... Methinks it is a bit contrived and less than scientific.
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I think it is wise to take the results of these online psychological tests with a grain of salt. I tend to equate them to those high school 'job personality' tests that are largely comprised of painfully transparent questions such as 'do you enjoy nursing animals back to health?' I.e. do you want to be a veterinarian? Or, 'do you enjoy taking care of beehives, and cultivating honey, beeswax, and pollen?' i.e. do you want to be a beekeeper? :lol:

JohannBessler said:
As another example, just recently I gave someone on JUB a real piece of my mind. While on one hand I think he deserved the tongue-lashing I gave him, on another hand I feel very bad about it because I wonder if my words did emotional damage. This makes me hate myself for being "weak". Society expects us to stay firm against an "enemy", and not go all mushy and start worrying about his welfare.
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Similarly, I once simply told a JUB member that perhaps he also needed to work on his personality after he said the same to another individual. I beat myself up about it for days because there were so many ways I could have better approached the situation that would result in minimal offense being taken, or perhaps none at all. I felt weak too, but not because I worried for his welfare; I felt weak because I had failed to take the time to consider the impact and repercussions of my words.

Sensitivity is a personality trait, not a personality weakness - lashing out at others is the real deficiency.

Take the time to consider how many individuals on JUB spew their insalubrious diatribe all over the forums; lashing out aggressively and sarcastically, attacking everybody without even realising what they're doing. I am happier to feel down about myself for a few days (and subsequently learn from my errors) than to be the type to defame and offend others without giving it a second thought.

JohannBessler said:
Why would I get concerned over the welfare of people I never met? I know it doesn't seem rational...
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Why wouldn't you? You don't have to shake a man's hand to have an impact on his life. The showing of kindness and compassion need not be restricted to your friends, family, and acquaintances - as a compliment or a kind word from a 'stranger' can go a very long way. They may appear to be nothing more than an avatar on a forum, but behind that avatar is a person, and he deserves to be treated with kindness just as much as any man you bump into on the street.
 
Turns out I'm not.
Some of those questions do bug me though - need something more like a scale of how much certain things matter to you instead of the yes/no format that has. Plenty of things there bug me a tiny bit, but not really, if you know what I mean...
 
Half the questions on the test seemed to be asking the same thing to me. looks like it was put together by an amateur to be honest. an amateur who wanted to consider themselves hsp.
 
it a noted 100000 yrs ago humans no all same wireins

so tells a world tulips or label like giv umselfs doctors go back school ans do sum studys ans save um get fail grades all time

there go

# so wot humans gonna play taday? #
$ where da moon? $
ooh dat popular one

thankyou
 
Wow very cool to see a thread about this! I already knew I am and its very annoying sometimes. But they say its something positive so that makes it better for me.
Dunno how people getting scores for me it just says:If you answered more than fourteen of the questions as true of yourself, you are probably highly sensitive.
 
JohannBessler said:
Too sensitive, Anders.

I find it a challenge to get through many days, because getting overstimulated overwhelms the senses. That too-strong a sense of empathy can overwhelm, too. In another thread, someone who posted a picture of a coffin nearly brought me to tears.

As another example, just recently I gave someone on JUB a real piece of my mind. While on one hand I think he deserved the tongue-lashing I gave him, on another hand I feel very bad about it because I wonder if my words did emotional damage. This makes me hate myself for being "weak". Society expects us to stay firm against an "enemy", and not go all mushy and start worrying about his welfare.

Why would I get concerned over the welfare of people I never met? I know it doesn't seem rational, but from what I read about the condition, experiencing such emotions seem quite usual for an HSP.

However, with all of this in mind, I understood every single word you wrote. Your post strikes an inner chord in me, Anders, on the most basic level. Thank you for giving me some sense of perspective on the matter.

@Thynight: but I didn't qualify as an Aspie any of the online tests.
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21 for me. I feel things exactly like you Johann, and sometimes it's a burden, but sometimes it's a plus being able to connect better with others.
 
JohannBessler said:
I don't think IQ tests hold very much verisimilitude, anyway. Using myself as an example, I have taken very many of them over the years, and have scored from a low of 100 to a high of 149. Mostly, though, the test results hover around the 130 range, so that's the number I use.
But how accurate could IQ tests be in the first place, if they give such widely divergent results in the same individual? Yet most people accept IQ tests as pure science.
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For me, every IQ tests are around the same number, 140, with the odd one too high and I dismissed it as a failure in the test. When many people can take them and they are recalibrated to a mean of 100, they're quite accurate I think, of course for what they test, ie it's not intelligence, it's a form of problems solving, which don't appear much in every day life, so the impact is minimal I believe :)
 
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