The Secret Superpowers Of Highly Sensitive People How To Know If You Are A Highly Sensitive Person One out of every twenty people is classified as a highly sensitive individual (HSP). This implies that you, or someone you know, may be sensitive. 42 percent of the population is not highly sensitive, which means that most things do not bother them in the same way that they do an HSP. Everyone else is somewhere in the middle, with the exception of a few people who are completely emotionless about anything. (By the way, 20% of the entire animal kingdom is also highly sensitive.) What do HSPs look like and how do they act? What exactly are HSPs? We're the people who think, who are cautious, who are conservative; the ones who say, "Hey, wait a minute. Let's give this some thought before doing anything hasty." Every society requires highly sensitive individuals, just as we require warriors, leaders willing to take risks. We, on the other hand, are the ones who help to tem...