highly sensitive person

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Bleecker, the point is that it's not "overly" sensitive, implying something wrong or abnormal, it's highly sensitive, meaning the upper end of the scale but still normal. And if you register on the high end of the scale for many different sensory inputs where most other people do not, you are probably in this sub-group.

You're right, and I meant to put 'highly sensitive' rather than 'overly sensitive' in my post, as I intended it to reflect the thread's title. I've corrected my post to read 'highly sensitive' now, but I still feel the same way about it.

To me, the very word 'sensitive' in this context seems to imply 'more so than average' and as such not really normal (if normal is average)...and its common usage these days often seems to have a negative connotation.
....or am I being too sensitive? LOL!

Ah, words.

I do think phobias should be categorized or approached differently than sensitivity...though they sometimes overlap because someone can be highly sensitive in their phobias. But one does not equate with the other.