๐๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟโ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ง๐ผ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐๐น๐ ๐๐ผ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ง๐ผ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐
For most of my life, I thought I was just โtoo sensitive.โ Too emotional. Too aware. Too deeply affected by things other people seemed to brush off. A change in someoneโs tone. A short reply. Feeling left out. Someone seeming distant. Being corrected. And suddenly my whole nervous system would spiral trying to work out what Iโd done wrong. Iโve also always had 50,000 ideas and projects happening at once. My mind rarely slows down. I get inspired easily. Excited easily. Bored easily too. Lately, Iโve been learning more about ADHD, nervous systems, emotional regulation, and sensitivityโฆ and honestly, so much of my life suddenly makes sense. I havenโt been diagnosed.And truthfully, Iโm not overly attached to labels anyway. Labels are for cans. ๐ But understanding that some nervous systems experience rejection, criticism, overwhelm, and emotions more intensely has helped me meet myself with far more compassion. For years I thought something was wrong with me. Now I see it differently. I donโt see my sensitivity as weakness anymore. I see it as awareness. As intuition. As creativity. As empathy. As the part of me that notices what others often miss. I also know I need quiet. Stillness Space to regulate my nervous system and return to myself. Thatโs why meditation, stitching, neurographical art, zentangles, yoga, sound, mindfulness, and creative projects have become such important parts of my life. Not because they โfixโ me.But because they help me slow down enough to breathe inside my own mind again. So many of us grew up hearing: โYouโre too sensitive." โYouโre overthinking.โ โStop taking things so personally.โ So we learned to mask it. Hide it. Push through it. Pretend we were okay. Meanwhile internally, we were replaying conversations for hours. But maybe sensitivity was never the problem. Maybe some of us were simply wired to feel deeply, create deeply, love deeply, and experience the world in a different way. And honestly? I think that might just be my superpower. ๐