Subject: RE: a rare condition: Aron vs Aron
From: Valérie Aron (miss_vertigo18@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jun 16 2001 - 12:29:48 GMT
The views of Elaine Aron seems a bit narrow to me. I
can't accept the idea that sensitivity is just
depending on the nervous system. Or we don't speak
about the same "sensitivity". Sensitivity can't be
quantified.
Valérie Aron
>
Suzanne wrote:
> The book, "The Highly Sensitive Person," by Elaine
> N. Aron Ph.D. disagrees
> with that. The rest of this post is some quotes from
> it.
>
> Contrary to the subject line, HSPs might make up
> 15-20% of the population:
>
> "People differ considerably in how much their
> nervous system is aroused in
> the same situation, under the same stimulation. The
> difference is largely
> inherited in all higher animals - mice, cats, dogs,
> horses, monkeys,
> humans. Within a species, the percentage that is
> very sensitive to
> stimulation is usually about the same, around 15-20
> percent. Just as some
> within a species are a little bigger in size than
> others, some are a little
> more sensitive. In fact, through careful breeding of
> animals, mating the
> sensitive ones to each other can create a sensitive
> strain in just a few
> generations. In short, among inborn traits of
> temperament, this one creates
> the most dramatic, observable differences." pages
> 6-7.
>
> Descriptions of the trait, including mention of a
> couple of studies:
>
> "The downside of the trait shows up at more intense
> levels of stimulation.
> What is moderately arousing for most people is
> highly arousing for HSPs.
> What is highly arousing for most people causes an
> HSP to become very
> frazzled indeed, until they reach a shutdown point
> called "transmarginal
> inhibition." [That] was first discussed around the
> turn of the century by
> the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, who was
> convinced that the most basic
> inherited difference among people was how soon they
> reach this shutdown
> point and that [HSPs] have a fundamentally different
> type of nervous system.
> "No one likes being overaroused, HSP or not. A
> person feels out of
> control, and the whole body warns that it is in
> trouble. Overarousal often
> means failing to perform at one's best. ..
> "Like the fire department, we HSPs mostly
> respond to false alarms. But
> if our sensitivity saves a life even once, it is a
> trait that has a genetic
> payoff. So, yes, when our trait leads to
> overarousal, it is a nuisance. But
> it is part of a package deal with many advantages.
> ..
> "Stimulation is anything that wakes up the
> nervous system, gets its
> attention, makes the nerves fire off another round
> of the little electrical
> charges that they carry. We usually think of
> stimulation as coming from the
> outside, but of course it can come from our body ..
> or as memories,
> fantasies, thoughts, or plans. .. [and] the same
> stimulus can have
> different meanings for different people ..
> "Obviously it would help if we were enlightened
> and detached from all of
> these associations so that nothing could arouse us.
> No wonder so many HSPs
> become interested in spiritual paths." p. 7-9
>
> [Research study on cultural values] compared 480
> schoolchildren in Shanghai
> to 296 in Canada to see what traits made children
> most popular. In China
> "shy" and "sensitive" children were among those most
> chosen by others to be
> friends or playmates. .. In Canada, shy and
> sensitive children were among
> the least chosen."
>
> Suzanne
>
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