Hi 2manytabsopen (awesome profile name by the way!!!!) - I just happened to be reading the symptoms for RSD and realised that 100% this is me. But I would also have said prior to reading these symptoms that I am also 'hyper sensitive'. I still would say that I am hyper-sensitive - because I think these conditions are like two branches on the same tree - though I imagine some with ADHD may have both and some may have one only(?), however they are also different.
To give two examples - last night my wife was talking about something and I 'thought' she was suggesting that I had failed to do something the right way (very often this is about online web type things - God I hate webforms) and immediately my brain is 'taking offence' and feeling that it is being 'accused' so my emotions spiral out of control - either angry at myself or angry with her, or angry with everything - this I would say is my version of RSD.
The second example(s) would be, I am in my house and outside it's raining, out of the corner of any eye I see some rain splashing in a puddle and my eyes/attention is immediately drawn to it and potentially worrying about what it was, another example would be hearing a noise in the house - somebody drops something on the floor and I am panicking, or another example would be smells - like gas and chlorine - I find them to be almost overpowering, even at very low levels. This I would say is my 'hyper-sensitivity'.
Wow those are fantastic examples! Could that be what is going on with me? We also had a horrible thunderstorm and the way the house shook, and the rain pounded our roof which needed repair made me feel like I was being punished. I alone. I have learned about RSD so so late. I came to the Highly Sensitive Person work before I learned about my own ADHD. There must be a correlation, with this ultra sensitive trait and the ones that bring us to this group. You are definitely not alone Mark.
Hi - the RSD is more simply described as when you can't take no for an answer, but the closer somebody is to you (in relationship terms - partner, child, parent, then out to Teacher, Manager, Co-Worker) the more 'sensitive' we are to them saying 'no' or something that we anticipate as being a 'no' even if they haven't said it. The storm/rain is probably leaning more to anxiety and (my favourite word - because it describes part of my ADHD behaviour very well) catastrophizing - i.e. we imagine the worst happening.
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