All people have a sensitive nature. This sensitive nature has to do with stimuli that require longer or deeper processing. If we want to compare people's irritability with each other, it is best to speak in terms of degrees.

Everyone gets overstimulated from time to time, and everyone has things in life that go deeper and require more processing time, which require us to set up stronger filters. Moreover, we live in a time when many things are constantly coming at us, shattered as it were. This is the age of the hypermedia in which images and words flash by on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok,… We also live in a time without fixed values ​​because everyone is telling the truth. How can you find order in your emotional life as a young person and even as an adult in these fragmented times? That's just a problem. It is no coincidence that today we see an increase in the number of people who are referred to as hypersensitive. And you notice this best on the social-relational level where many people become overstimulated. It is not that simple in this society, in which we all try to find our own cohesion in the many splinters that come at us.

How the brain controls our sensitivity has not yet been sufficiently established scientifically. It is true that people with a sensitive nature have a more active brain. We can see this as a thorough processing of stimuli. In general we can say that things that are sensitive to us stimulate our brain and keep it alert and active.

It is said that people with sensitive natures are a minority. But assuming that we all have sensitive points, can we simply divide people into sensitive, highly sensitive and 'non-sensitive'? If we want to make a distinction, I think it is best to speak of people with a sensitive nature and people with a less sensitive nature. It is also better to speak of someone's lesser and stronger sensitive touch points.

Does sensitivity have characteristics? Yes, quite a lot. I don't have the space here to list them all. The characteristics can be recognizable by types of personalities and profiles. But they vary from person to person. They can be part of a personality pattern but also of a personality disorder.

For example, you have the list that is classically given for people who are called highly sensitive, or as they are also described: the 'hypersensitive' people. In positive, visionary power terms I speak of the most sensitive people myself. By this I mean highly sensitive people as they are characterized by their intuitive ability, by their antennae with which they can predict disturbances among people, by their servitude. These are humanistic characteristics.

Highly sensitive people perceive many stimuli sharply, they live on the waves of human relationships. When they are strong enough internally and have a humanistic view of the world, they can be true reconcilers and peacemakers. This is their visionary power.

Then there are also people with an autism-sensitive nature, or people with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Syndrome (ASD). I like to include them for comparison because they are often labeled as 'insensitive' by people who don't know them.

People with ASD are also sensitive to stimuli. They perceive sharply details, so sharply that they lose an overview of the whole of those stimuli, that it is difficult for them to find unity in them. The overstimulation that their structure entails often makes them withdraw from social events. This could be because they are very out of touch with it, but it could also be that despite their sensitivity to people, they are unable to synthesize the social codes in a timely manner, with all the stress that this entails. Or that they prefer to withdraw into their inner world. It is also the case that they cannot always correctly articulate all those detailed stimuli that come in, which makes them live inside them. Because extroversion is highly validated today, these people with high internal sensitivity are often unjustly undervalued on a social level. However, people with an autism sensitive nature can in their own way be very sensitive in respect for the other person.

These types of most sensitive people who are highly sensitive or who have an autism prone nature are not the only ones who have something to tell us about being sensitive. Obviously, because each of us has a sensitive nature. So it concerns all of us. In this way we form with our emotional world that splendor of a diamond that is hidden among people. It is my belief and hope that we will all succeed in discovering our sensitive nature and doing something constructive with it. It is my belief and hope that we will then develop a global visionary force that will boost the humanistic and cosmic foundation of our world in many ways.