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Over the past several months,
I've gotten many, many comments,
saying do a video about highly sensitive persons.
And this, by far, I think is the most requested video.
Someone asked for it yesterday,
so I figured, let's look into it.
What we're gonna do today is I'm gonna take
the highly sensitive person test
and see if I truly am a highly sensitive person.
Basically, if we look at it on Wikipedia,
it talks about sensory processing sensitivity,
and so a person with high sensory processing sensitivity
is a highly sensitive person.
And as you can read here on Wikipedia,
it is a personality trait characterized by
high level of sensitivity to external stimuli.
There we are on Wikipedia.
Let's go over to the Highly Sensitive Person website.
Is this you?
Are you easily overwhelmed by things
such as bright lights, strong smells,
coarse fabrics or sirens nearby?
Man, yes.
Do you get rattled when you have a lot to do
in a short amount of time?
Yes, do you make a point of avoiding
violent movies and TV shows?
Yes, yes to it all.
Let's just skip to the test.
If it turns out I'm not a highly sensitive person,
I'm gonna delete my channel.
That's how much I'm willing to put on a bet
that I am a highly sensitive person.
And look, they're saying it's normal, it's 15% to 20%.
It's innate, it's basically born into you.
The Wikipedia article talks about
how it's part of your central nervous system,
something to do with that.
Click here to take the self-test, here we go.
It's not meant to diagnose
or exclude the diagnosis of any condition.
Well, that's too bad,
'cause I came here to get diagnosed for,
I'm trying to think of a disease
that will not offend people if I say it.
I can't think of anything.
I was about to say one thing, and I, what have we come to?
All right, find out here.
High sensitivity self-test.
By the way, doing this with the green screen
is the whole reason I got this green screen,
is so I could do stuff like this,
'cause this is cool.
This is high production value.
This is like,
I think I'm ready to go pro level.
Check the box if it is at least somewhat true.
Leave unchecked if it is not very true.
I am easily overwhelmed by strong sensory input.
I will say yes, especially sound.
I have very sensitive hearing.
I seem to be aware of subtleties in my environment.
Yeah.
Other peoples' moods affect me.
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
I tend to be very sensitive to pain.
Now this is one, I don't like pain,
but I don't seem to experience it
as much as other people, so I'm gonna say no.
I find myself needing to withdraw during busy days
or into bed or in a darkened room
or any place where I can have some privacy
and relief from stimulation.
First of all, speaking of subtleties,
how did we miss the space here after the comma?
Unacceptable, but yeah, I need to withdraw.
I am particularly sensitive to the effects of caffeine.
Well, I used to be, but not anymore, so I'm gonna say no.
I drank probably six cups of coffee today.
I am easily overwhelmed by things like bright lights,
strong smells, coarse fabrics or sirens close by.
This is one where I'm not, 'cause like, yeah,
sirens yes, maybe fabrics, strong smells, yeah.
I'm just gonna skip that question
because I can't say definitively yes.
I have a rich, complex inner life.
Once again, a missing space.
Yeah, I guess I do, I mean that's kind of a judgment call.
I am uncomfortable by loud noises.
Yes, especially loud chewing.
I am deeply moved by the arts or music, yes.
My nervous system sometimes feels so frazzled
that I just have to go off by myself.
Yeah, occasionally that happens.
I am conscientious.
Well, according to the big five test, I'm not.
I startle easily.
Yeah, I would say I do.
I get rattled when I have a lot to do
in a short amount of time, yeah.
When people are uncomfortable in a physical environment,
I tend to know what needs to be done
to make it more comfortable,
like changing the lighting or the seating.
This is a complex question.
How often does this happen in real life,
that I'm met with people who are uncomfortable?
This has gotta be the most boring video I've ever done.
I'm highly sensitive to boredom.
I mean, yeah, if people look uncomfortable,
I want to help them out.
I'm annoyed when people try to get me to do
too many things at once.
Oh, yes.
I try hard to avoid making mistakes or forgetting things.
Yeah, you know, when I leave a room
or anything like that I'm always looking behind me
to make sure I didn't leave stuff behind.
I'm very paranoid about that.
I'm always, I don't know what it is.
Is it OCD?
I just feel like, yeah.
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Back to the test.
I make a point to avoid violent movies and TV shows.
Yeah, I do.
You know, I've gotten more sensitive as time has gone on.
When I was a teenager, it didn't really bother me that much,
but now I really try to avoid that stuff.
Even with just books.
When I was a teenager, up through college,
I could read books that were somewhat
disturbing and violent,
and now I just don't even want to touch 'em.
I don't like doing it.
I become unpleasantly aroused
when a lot is going on around me.
Yeah, I would say so.
Being very hungry creates a strong reaction in me,
disrupting my concentration or mood.
Yeah, but isn't that everyone?
I don't get it.
Yeah, I get really angry when I'm hungry.
Changes in my life shake me up.
Yeah, but who doesn't?
This is the thing, I'm like, how is this special?
I notice and enjoy delicate or fine scents,
tastes, sounds, works of art.
Yeah.
I find it unpleasant to have a lot going on at once, yeah.
I make it a high priority to arrange my life
to avoid upsetting or overwhelming situations.
I avoid everything.
I make it a high priority to arrange my life
to avoid upsetting, that's what I just read, Frank.
Is the next thing I read things twice?
I am bothered by intense stimuli
like loud noises or chaotic scenes.
Yeah, well who isn't?
This is what I don't get.
I think my family must have had
a lot of highly sensitive people in it,
because it just seems like this is how everyone,
not everyone, but a lot of people in my family act.
This is the way, my brothers are like this.
I remember my grandfather,
he was so easily irritated by stuff.
I am just like him in that way.
When I must compete or be observed while performing a task,
I become so nervous or shaky
that I do much worse than I would otherwise.
Um, it depends.
This is the problem with any self-test.
This is so open to interpretation.
What kind of task are we talking about?
Is it something that I'm very confident in?
Is it something that I'm not very confident in?
I'm gonna say no, 'cause honestly, I'm good at performing.
Let's just be honest.
When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse
out of the corner of my eye.
No, that's not.
When I was a child, my parents and teachers
seemed to see me as sensitive or shy, yeah.
Your total, 22.
Emmitt Smith.
If you answered more than 14 of the questions
as true of yourself, you are probably highly sensitive,
but no psychological test is so accurate
that an individual should base his or her life on it.
Yet the Myers-Briggs test is so accurate,
16Personalities.com is so accurate
that you should base your entire life off of it.
You heard it here.
We psychologists try to develop good questions,
then decide on the cutoff based on the average response.
If fewer questions are true of you,
but extremely true, that might also justify calling,
I'm just reading this entire page.
This is the dumbest.
This is struggling.
This is, help me!
Help me, Clarence.
This is copyrighted material.
Um,
so what I'm gonna say is that this is fair use,
because I'm giving my own commentary,
and if you want to go do this test,
I'm not claiming this test is my own.
I'm gonna go for it, and if I get a copy strike,
then I will eat my words.
You know guys, I am very afraid of copyright law
because if you follow copyright law to a T
it's very restrictive.
Very restrictive.
So, that's that.
Do you see why I avoided doing this for so long?
What is there to say?
All right, well go ahead, take that test for yourself.
I'll put a link in the description
so that you can test, are you a highly sensitive person.
Let me know in the comments if you are highly sensitive,
or if you're just a big brute who is not sensitive at all.
You probably don't even help old ladies across the street.
You probably,
well, thanks so much for watching.
I'm sure that you highly sensitive people
who watch this probably,
like this was grating on your nerves to watch,
but this is high quality content, just so you know.
Just so I can train you to know
what high quality content is,
whatever I put out is high quality.
That's why they call me HQ FJ.
This is what running on fumes looks like.
This is,
no.
All right, I'm gonna go play Super Nintendo.
You all take care.
♪ I'm such a sensitive guy ♪
♪ You can tell because the noise is gettin' to me ♪
♪ And when I'm hungry I get real angry ♪