highly sensitive power

Do you have to be so picky about the lights / music / temperature?

Cripes! My human suit is so finely calibrated, ain’t it? And itchy, too. Well, tough noogies. We’re both stuck with it until I reunite with the mother ship.

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Sometimes HSP seems to stand for highly serious person. Where are our highly sensitive humorists? Who can help us remove the sting from the human suits we were born into?

No-holds-barred quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan sets the bar high for poking fun at one’s own vulnerabilities. In doing so, he’s won my devotion. I’m alternately fascinated, alarmed, and challenged as guffaws rise up in spite of my sense of what’s appropriate to laugh about. John Callahan’s bravery, insights, and irreverence inspire me to take my own self less seriously.

If we can make each other laugh about ourselves, if we can allow others to laugh with us, then maybe we’ll all be more inclined to find the lighter side of sensitive.

Then we’ll not only be okay, we’ll be downright giddy by the time the mother ship returns.

Flickr photo: He knows, Doctor.. He knows, by Mr McGladdery

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