I'm sensitive in my feelings. You could say I'm a people pleaser. I hate it though. I tip-toe around people a lot and apologize for everything. Once I said sorry for saying sorry too much. I don't like it when people are upset with me. I never do things with bad intentions. Mostly I get used for being nice. I have an inferiority complex too. People used to ask me to pay for them to go out to eat with them. Basically, I don't go out with people anymore. I have to pay for everything they want to do with me. The movie, going out to eat, to want someone to get coffee with, etc... This is why I don't get out much or don't have many friends. If I want to be around with people I like, I just go to work. People at my place like to ask me to buy them this or that or borrow money from me. I don't lend, borrow or steal. They all know I'm employed and that I have more money than them. I learned to say, No to borrowers. My few true friends with higher paying jobs, pay for themselves. They are so busy mostly, I never see them. Sometimes I feel like I need to apologize for my existence.

sorry, but i have to larrrrv! yes, i cover my ears when an ambulance is screaming past, but no, i do not have to retreat on particularly busy days, because i am retreated most of the time. & who on earth would not rather smell a pink frangipani blossom than freshly produced dog poo? i find this attempt at creating a new psycho-label ridiculous, as i find most labelings of human individuals bullshit. it's very much like saying: oh, you're an aquarius! that explains everything! & i'm not even saying that i am not shy, or not sensitive, or not aquarius; it's just ... you won't fit all this into one drawer, not on your life L L

Sirens and bright lights, yes. Rough fabrics, no.

Violent movies annoy me (prefer subtle movies like "American Beauty" ). Movies that rely on wanna-be porn, car chases, and guns...are a waste of film.

I seriously doubt this applies to me. I am very skeptical about HSP.

I think I am now due to traumatic events

Sometimes, some of those things apply. Other times, not so much.
Although, I am finding, as I get older, I have to work harder at not allowing certain things
to overwhelm me. Hence, my "I really don't give a flying rat's ass" attitude about a lot of things.
If I let myself, I will overthink everything to the point of being paralyzed by indecision. I will curl up in a little ball in the corner if I don't fight back when people are trying to diminish me.
This is precisely what I mean when I say that I use anger as a motivator. If I didn't, I'd be completely useless most of the time.

I work in a clinic with occupational and physical therapists. I’ve discovered that I have a multitude of sensory issues. I should have received therapy as a child but am fairly certain my parents had no clue that such a thing even existed.

Sounds like a way of stating if you identify on the Autism Spectrum.

I think anyone with functional sensory mechanisms will relate to the first pin point made under the "is this you" category.

Yes, that is me

Sounds related to sensory defensiveness.

I am not sensitive at all based on these, haha. The lights and noises only bother me when I try to sleep. I do know someone, whose child has a hypersensitivity to stimuli; anything sets him off: tags on clothes, noises, food textures, smells...you name it. It's a real disorder, but I forgot the name of it.

I can Identify with some of it.
What I saw it as was a description of anxiety and depression.

Only one out of eight on the list applies to me.

Nope. Not this guy, even though I do like to avoid too much noise, but that's because of having been around too much gunfire with ears unprotected in my younger years. My tinnitus goes off the charts when exposed to excessive noise now.

Why yes, some of my friends are HSP. Very nice they are, too.

I feel that this is unnecessary; sensitivity to senses is a common thing associated with many different illnesses. This sounds like pseudoscience

I must be a slug I only got 7.

I can relate to most of what you said. I am not familiar with the term but I have always had issues with noises like dogs barking or crying babies. The kind of movies I have problems with are the physical comedies. Where they have to make fool of themselves for a laugh. I can not even stay in the room if I see it comming. As far as human interaction I have never been able to have any real friends and if I do, only one at a time. I have lost many jobs because the moment I feel like some one does not like me, my anxiety shoots through the roof and it is fight or flight. I think that like many free thinkers who have delt with depression, I think too much. There is always some scenario of a conversation or actions that are bothering me rattling around in my head. It is a very exhausting existence that has had some very dark days.

I am a highly sensitive, deeply broken, cynical optimist with realistically pessimistic expectations

I do in a way as a lot of this list does apply to me, but I think what made me this way out was my upbringing which was pretty strange with a bi polar mother and an abusive father, no rules of any kind no solidity etc.etc.

On the MyersBriggs scale I'm an INFJ. Supposedly only 1% of the population is this.
I have a few of these traits but not to the extent that is described.
No loud noises. Don't like to be rushed or feeling rushed. Bright lights and strong scents bother me. I hate cigarette smoke and smelling it on people. I don't like confrontation, it gets me upset and I will avoid it at almost any cost. I'm kind and certain types of people tend to mistake my kindness for weakness and then I have to set them straight, sometimes it gets ugly.
I just recently heard about this HSP thing and a fellow INFJ I know believes she is also HSP. I don't know enough about it personally to state an opinion as to if it's real or not but it sounds like it's real to the people who think it is. If it helps them find perspective that helps them in their lives who am i to judge?

Absolutely. I've been involved in HSP online communities for some time now, and have made some nice connections through them. When I had first found out about the trait it helped to clear up a lot of confusion for me.

Oh, I'm sensitive... in all the right places, baby.