“You,” he said, “are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”
That quote belongs in Emilie Autumn’s psychological thriller novel, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls.
I used it a few months ago in a post to describe Robin Williams and why, I think, he was in so much pain.
But I also think it’s true for me, and why I am in pain so much of the time.
Ten years ago, after reading Elaine Aron’s research on the highly sensitive person, I realized that I emerged from my mother’s womb without the extra layer of skin, the protective coat, most people are born with. Therefore I not only can intuit the emotions of someone else, but I feel them on a very deep level.
If someone I love is in pain, I am in…
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