By Sarah Swenson — 2021
Don’t Give Up on Couples Counseling! Find a Therapist Who Understands Neurodiversity Instead
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In a work world dominated by automation, digitalization, and increasing incivility, the need for one group of workers, those whom I call “sensitive strivers,” has never been greater.
Neurodiversity, sensitivity, and how the status quo snubs 20–30% of us.
Transgender or gender-fluid people are more likely to be neurodivergent, and vice versa. Here’s what that’s like.
Sometimes it feels like the world wasn’t designed for sensitive people. Here are ways to take care of yourself.
Anecdotal observations from my own dealings.
Highly sensitive people might be different from the general population, but they are different in a way that could be useful—and perhaps crucial—to the function of society.
The basis of the 36 questions is that back-and-forth self-disclosure . . . is consistently linked with coming to like the other person you do this with.
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