Do you get your feelings hurt easily?

If someone I truly care about says something mean, yes it hurts like hell...mostly because I'd never intentionally hurt someone I love that way. But if someone I dont know...or dont care for...trys to tear me down...I just let it roll off my back.

No but I will get annoyed and then act .

yeah, but then I remember that I'm an a*****e, so then I don't feel so bad

I can do but mainly not..I get even if someone hurts me.

I don't typically get my feelings hurt easily. I suppose what hurt my feelings the most was my ex always calling me fat as*! Oh well, his loss now.

Revenge is sweet eh? :bigsmile:

Lol yep. It's like I told him, I can fix being fat but he can't fix being ugly. Immature reply on my part, I know.

I pretty much don't have any feelings.

I'm too sensitive for my own good really, I can't take anything negative that someone would say about me and I break down and feel so ashamed of myself and repeatedly question things and call myself names.

I'm a big ol' sissy lala....just walk away

I don't really care what people say about me, it's either true and therefore why get upset, or lies, and therefore why get upset. I do cry at sad and emotional stuff on TV though and when pets die.

I like to think about what the person said and why they may have said it... if i know the person's intention then I base my feelings on that.

But normally, I think, its not so much about having a thick or thin skin. It's about whether or not you act on how you feel, later on.

Every emotion is hard wired into my tearducts. Can't help it.

I'm sensitive, but also most people have the idea that being offensive is somehow funny and edgy, not hurtful and disgusting, so I'm often told "don't be so sensitive!" Okay, don't be such an *kitten*.

But that's how forums work, just accept it. Not getting someone else's so-called "humor" and not finding it funny means you're in the wrong, not them. It's never their fault because if you put something up on the internet, you should expect all kinds of feedback, except someone calling you out on being an *kitten*. That's never allowed.

If you don't like what someone else said to you, you can't complain, or you're an over-sensitive crybaby who clearly has nothing better to do than respond to a provocative post on the internet!

.../sarcasm

Are you more sensitive than the average bear? Thin skinned or thick? What does it to you?

Depends. Reactive responses are more Fort Knox than most - it's the conditioning - possibly, nurtured to not react as one should ordinarily, which was emphatically instilled to be inappropriate and common. To take insult too easily is a show of weakness, meaning easy to shatter, take down and assault at will, weakening one's family's position, endangering one's tribal assets and risking the safety of one's people who live as freely as they're possibly allowed to - comfortably.

In person it doesn't show in the least - the underlying rolling waves are instinctively neutralised/measured, to avoid detection, from years of having to stay within the gray area/balance between the conflicting groups.

For my sister and I - inhuman in reaction to anything that might incite violence - is our normal. In private we do break down like a normal person.

Edited to add: I am a tribal leader-born, so any insult done me, is not only directed at me. What i may characteristically deflect, my people will not, so we are taught and nurtured to control and prevent what can easily be interpreted as a means to incite the masses and we're a violent people.