Talking to kids about overexcitabilities

[Dave]

When I first found out about Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities I was so relieved. For the first time in my life I felt like I had an understanding of why I was like I was. I wasn't just an oddball. There was an explanation for why I reacted to situations like I did. So last year when my son, then nine, started talking to me about how he felt very different from most of his class mates and asked if I thought he was weird it was very easy to talk to him about the situation and explain that some people feel things much more deeply or are more sensitive to the world around him. I was able to show him some overexcitabilities self tests on line and he definitely recognized himself in them and seemed very satisfied that he was not a weirdo. It may be purely coincidental but this year he is having the best school year that he has ever had. He has always done very well academically, but this year he is much more involved and seems to have a sense of confidence and ease that he has not had in the past. Do you talk to your HSP children about the way they feel? Has talking about it seemed to make them anymore comfortable with their sensitivities?