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Thank you for the info! Do you teach yoga too? I did go to your home page. Thanks again!

It's overwhelming in so many ways, especially when it comes to humans and modern life - but communicating with animals, them trusting me, sitting on or next to me seemingly randomly and butterflies and bees landing on me makes up for anything negative. 💚🙏 I just try to avoid the places that drain me and watch what goes in or around my body ! 🤷‍♀️😆

I, unfortunately, refer to myself as a sociopath with a conscience. I hate people. I am a misanthrope. But the empathy I feel is overwhelming and it keeps me feeling “human” more like an alien. I literally cry when they cut down lots to build houses because the dead energy of the trees is crushing my soul.

I pick up on animal stuff a lot better than other people. Animals react to me better because I'm trying to be a polite whatevertheyare while others are just blundering in like drunken Disney Princesses.

I'm neurodivergent in several ways (Dyscalculia, Auditory Olfactory and Auditory Tactile Synethesia, HSP, and an Acquired Brain Injury). I agree with almost all of what you said. I feel that all of these differences give me incredible empathy, the ability to see things from many different sides, a deeper appreciation of beauty (art, music etc), as I process it so deeply, greater understanding of my emotions and when I allow myself to, the capacity to be my authentic self. I would also add to these, increased resilience and determination.

Thanks for that view. I'm 75 and was diagnosed with ADHD in my late fifties. But even then, twenty years ago, there was not much information to help me understand my condition; only textbooks, which, if you are dealing with ADHD are not really very useful. Much more helpful are the relatively short personal anecdotes of individuals who take the time and trouble to post these on KZbin. What a mess my life was! And still I learn every day, and gain a little more understanding of myself, with the help of people like you.

Walk 🚶‍♀️ even 10 minutes helps tremendously

Thank you 🙏🏼

You just described me! Thanks for sharing...

this is a lovely video, thank you

Good points for everyone re; self-care. I rely on lists. A list of what I want in my hiking bag, beach bag or to take bicycling etc. Seems like each activity requires slightly different things. Being organized reduces stress

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Thank you for sharing your honest experiences with us, totally agree, the idea of Autistics not empathising is ridiculous! More kind-hearted and compassionate souls than neurotypical by far ❤

Based on this is strongly suspect i have autism. Definitely hsp and social anxiety disorder

How much are your courses in American dollars?

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Thanks!. I'm an HSP. I have ADHD and may be on the spectrum too. I think a lot of people who are HSPs are neurodiverse.

I absolutely agree that HSP is a neurodivergence, this is a topic I'm quite passionate about and I think it would geeatly help the HSP community if we finally openly acknowledged that we are neurodivergent. There are so many highly sensitive people who are suffering, because our brain works differently, but we keep trying to funtion the way neurotypical people do. If I'd say I was autistic, people would understand that I need certain accomodations, but if I say I'm HSP, most people have no idea what I'm talking about (not to say that in many languages HSP is translated as "hypersensitive", because it's hard to translate highly sensitive, and that doesn't help either). Anyway, if we'd acknowledge that HSP is under the neurodivergent umbrella, things might change for the better.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences. Some people in the autism community are saying HSPs are on the spectrum. That's not necessarily science, but it will be interesting to see how it all changes over time with more research and understanding. The reality is things that are considered disorders now were not necessarily disorders during different times. ADHD and Autism helped tribal communities survive and discover things that neurotypicals never would have been able to do. Some ADHDers were likely the night watch people. And a study just came out saying that they made better foragers. The ability to hyper focus likely helped create a lot of inventions/discoveries over the course of human history. There's a reason these differencess survived in the gene pool for so long. I personally am now identifying as HSP, ADHD-I and Autistic. Figuring out my neurodivergence has allowed me to have more self-compassion and understanding for myself.

If it falls outside the norm of how a typical brain is structured through the developmental process I believe that would qualify it as neurodivergent. Autism and ADHD are merely the best examples that people know of. However, these phenomenon were only identified recently and are still very misunderstood.

Good video. Totally agree, anxiety/meltdowns/sensory burnout result in HSP aswell as in my case ASD as a result of external stimuli...Subscribed.

Yes. I agree about the boxes and labels, not always that straight forward, at the same time a bit of help for those on the journey of self knowledge, and understanding of oneself. And again to be careful of not to make it a too big thing and become the "label", balance in all. On my own journey, only took the free online hsp tests, but over an extended period of time (about 3 years) say maybe 3-4 times per year. And came up with between 70-90% likelyhood of beeing hsp in every test. Also the overlap with introversion, about same 70-80%. This was about 6 years ago. Thank you for sharing👍

I also think that highly sensitive person is neurodivergent. It just means different and I think it is different in a good way. We used to be the shamans and wisewomen/men of the community because of this sensitivity. Medicalization is trying to define different as wrong but it is not. One just needs to learn how to take one's sensitivities into consideration so that this modern insensitive society and work life doesn't overwhelm us.

Someone mentioned being Neurodivergent to me this past week. I never heard the term, then this video shows up in my feed.

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Excellent advice!

Thanks for that 😁

Pressure of feeling like I should come out of hiberation. Also, the thought of less clothes due to warmer weather and how that makes me feel vunerable. People wanting to meet up due to better weather and light nights. Different food becomes available and other foods appear. (not so much in the UK as you have less seasonal foods than here in Portugal which is where I am). More people too, tourists, sight seeers.

Love this routine. Thank you

Loved this meditation. Came at the time l needed it the most. To be aware of self and my worth just made that self hug the most meaningful touch of myself l have ever experienced.

Thank you for these insights Nichola. I definitely struggle with picking up the things that are not said, and it can mean sometimes being with others takes me further away from belonging. The advice of offering self-empathy at the end of the day, and about journaling a list about the huge positives of being sensitive are both really helpful, thank you. I needed this shift in energy today!

Thank you for this practice!🙏

I found this really helpful Nichola thank you. Having a practice before going into highly stimulating circumstance is great advice. I also watched your seasonal advice for January and found your tip about not doing too much really helpful (though I broke it recently and now really see why it's important!) Thanks for the videos and the blogs.

This was very helpful, Nichola - thank you very much! 🙏🌺

This has literally just rescued me from a total spiral! ❤ Thank you x

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Very nice and informative. I enjoyed your calming voice.