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Hi Ashley
My heart goes out to you as you suffer so much through the highly questionable attitudes and actions of others.
I like to think of sensitivity as a super power. When someone says to me 'You're too sensitive, you need to toughen up', they may as well be saying 'Get rid of your ability to feel'.
I've found being sensitive requires a bit of sassiness at times. Again, that statement 'You need to toughen up' used to bring me down while leading me to believe I was weak. With me having developed my sassy sense of self and a great deal of pride in my sensitivity, this statement now leads me to say to people 'You know that statement's depressing'. Others will typically say 'No it's not'. My response, 'Damn right it is. You know how I know it's depressing? I can feel it and I've learned to trust what I feel'. If you connect with a group of sensitives, they'll all agree it can be a depressing statement you can feel at a soulful level. The statement can also feel angering at times.
Sensitive people have the ability to feel so much. They'll feel injustice, a lack of help, the need to question, the need to wonder, the degrading arrogance of others, triggering comments and the list goes on. Insensitive people don't often feel a lot of that, based on the fact they're insensitive (can't sense for one reason or another). A lot of the time, people are conditioned out of feeling/sensing when they're kids, which is really sad. They lose their ability. You never lost yours, which is why you still feel so much.
Your sensitivity will tell you what/who you're dealing with. A social media platform is good practice for getting a feel for people's nature. You can feel a depressing nature in someone (belonging to a person who often brings or puts people down), an arrogant self righteous one, a happy one, an inspiring one etc. You'll feel 'em all 🙂 Why people have such natures remains questionable.