Highly sensitive people

The gifts of high sensitivity include pattern recognition, creativity, entrepreneurial insight, empathy, and seeing connections others miss. HSP traits are framed as both a burden and a gift. The article distinguishes empaths from HSPs by treating empathy as emotional attunement and HSP as a broader sensitivity category. Highly sensitive people are described as taking in more sensory, emotional, chemical, and environmental information than average. The burdens of high sensitivity include overwhelm, chemical sensitivity, recovery needs, and vulnerability to environmental and relational stress.