Sensitivity

I have been hypersensitive from the day I was born, something I have spent much of my life trying unsuccessfully to hide, just to save my sensitive soul more anguish.
And how satisfying it is when someone puts it all into words.
Read more here.

Quote from article:
"All of which is not to suggest that being thick-skinned is such an enviable temperamental trait. Indeed, as we delicate flowers see it, the problem is not with us but with all those sturdy Teflon-coated types who lack the emotional sonar to pick up on the painfully obvious and the obviously painful."