Highly Sensitive Person is an Ableist Sham

This “temperament” is masked autism repackaged for upper-middle-class white women. It’s nothing new

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The Highly Sensitive Person profile is a controversial soft diagnosis — it is not in the DSM-V — and for good reason, because it shares many traits with autism. They share so many traits that many of us in the autism community…