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was distracting. But Aron had a great
desire to get her message out. She persevered,
and learned to speak like the
authority she was. By the time I saw
her at Walker Creek Ranch, she was
practiced, crisp, and sure. The only difference
between her and your typical
speaker was how conscientious she
seemed about answering every last
audience question. She lingered afterward
with the group, even though, as
an extreme introvert, she must have
been itching to get home.
Aron’s description of highly sensitive
people sounds as if she’s talking about
Eleanor Roosevelt herself. Indeed, in
the years since Aron first published her
findings, scientists have found that
when you put people whose genetic
profiles have been tentatively associated
with sensitivity and introversion
(people with the gene variant of
399/929