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When Nature Has to Conform to Culture: Highly Sensitive People in a Nonsensitive Culture

August 19, 2016 by Carie Little Hersh 3 Comments

When Nature Has to Conform to Culture: Highly Sensitive People in a Nonsensitive Culture

Elaine Aron’s book The Highly Sensitive Person was like my own personal Da Vinci Code—riveting, compelling, and totally solved a mystery about myself I didn’t know existed. My whole life I felt more worn out than others, more overwhelmed and overstimulated. But being raised in a Catholic family with a Protestant work ethic and an American intolerance for anything perceived as weak, I saw my sensitivity and heightened perceptivity as personal failings to overcome. Why do I notice the tension in a couple’s conversation across the room when their immediate neighbors are chatting happily unaware? Or the fact that a child is about to fall off a chair fifteen feet away from me when his babysitter is oblivious next to him? <Just mind your own business.> Why do sore muscles, or tight … [Read more...]

Filed Under: American Culture, Culture, Enculturation / Learning Culture, Gender, Sex, & Sexuality, Parenting Tagged With: Canada, China, cultural context, Culture and Personality, Elaine Aron, gender, gender roles, introversion, introvert, Japan, Margaret Mead, mental health, overstimulation, sensitive, sensitivity, shy, shyness, temperament, The Highly Sensitive Child, The Highly Sensitive Person, United States

Dr. Carie Little Hersh

Dr. Carie Little Hersh is an American cultural anthropologist, former attorney, and teaching professor in Anthropology at Northeastern University. This is her personal blog about anthropology and its relevance to everyday life.

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