What It’s Like Being a Highly Sensitive Person
And what it’s like being a male version of it
Nov 8 · 7 min read

I always thought of myself as someone who gets excited too quickly, afraid too easily, worried too often. Society (especially the one I grew up in) calls men like that weak. They tell you to ‘man up’ and stop being so soft. Men never cry and should always be serious, calm and cold, like stone.

