As a high potential Highly Sensitive Person You've probably already felt like you're full of it. And that's quite normal. It comes from something called latent inhibition deficit. But I assure you it's a bit barbaric to talk about a very simple thing. Anyway, it's because of this that you can feel that your brain up there is overloading and it's going to explode.
I'll explain.
PS: It's related to hyperaesthesia, that sensory hypersensitivity that zebras have.
My name is Paul and my high potential was detected more than ten years ago now. And today, on Connect The DotsI share what I have learned to help others develop.
Latent inhibition
Here we go, we start this video on the latent inhibition deficit. But before we understand what this deficit of inhibition is waiting, we need to talk about what inhibition is waiting. In fact inhibition of waiting is a process that happens inside our brain.
To explain it to you I drew you a kind of star / explosion. It's an external stimulus. It can be anything: a noise, a light, something you see, etc., but something that stimulates our five senses, something that comes from the outside. This external stimuli sends a signal to the brain (either through the eyes, or via touch, neurons, etc.). This stimulation sends a message to our brain. Then the brain has two choices. The first choice is to throw away this information because it is not useful to him. Or second choice: he will integrate this information because it is useful to him. It is this process of sorting out information related to external stimuli that is inhibition of waiting.
For example, if you take a neurotypical student in class: I put in color what he should pay attention to. His brain will capture all the information there is. He's going to capture the clock, he's going to capture the other people around him, potentially the people talking in the hallway, but he's also going to capture the speaking teacher, and what's marked on the board. But her brain will sort out all this external information to keep only the two important things that are what the teacher says is what she writes on the board. It is this sorting process that is latent inhibition.
The latent inhibition deficit
So we go back to our scheme so we can show you the differences between latent inhibition and latent inhibition deficit in the persons HIP.
So already what you need to know (maybe I will make a video about it afterwards, if that is the case I will put you the link later) the high potentials and hypersensitive are hyperesthetic people. That is, they have sensory hypersensitivity. Their five senses are crazy and they send far more signals to the brain. For me, for example, I have a very bad touch with sewing socks. She doesn't just bother me, she hurts me very much and I have to wear all my socks upside down. Or if one day we meet in the street you can be sure that I will have sunglasses because I am very soon dazzled. Or the slightest little noise bothers me.
All these signals there in fact are captured and become very embarrassing because they are stronger one has much more stimulation from these signals. And then what happens in the process of latent inhibition deficit is that the brain does not throw anything in the trash. All signals are stored. He can't sort out what's important and relevant, and what's not.
So if we go back to our neurotypical student just now, I had put in color what he pays attention to: what the teacher says and what is marked on the board. He only pays attention to that because his brain threw all the other information in the trash. Now if we come back to theIntellectually Early Childhood (EIP)His brain's not gonna throw all the other information in the trash. That is to say that for him what the teacher says will be as important as what people say in the corridor, that the time that passes, that what his neighbor is writing, that the teacher's dress, and that all that he sees, all that he hears. Everything is at the same level, and it cannot achieve and prioritize. That's why he has a lot of people who have difficulty concentrating in progress. Actually, it's not that they're having trouble concentrating. EN run, it's that they're having trouble concentrating ON the course because they are focused on everything that happens around them. And even if you tell them that what's important is that you have to listen to the teachers, they know it, they know it's important, but their brain doesn't go in that direction.
It does not cut all other stimulations.
Conclusion
So to conclude the high potentials do not manage to sort among all the external stimulations they capture. That's why they can quickly get attacked by some small noises, or be distracted at the restaurant or in environments that are hyper-dynamic.
For example, I'll tell you about the restaurant. If I'm at the restaurant with friends, family, or anyone, I'm having a lot of trouble focusing on the discussion I'm in, the discussion that's at my table. Because at the same time I listen to the discussion of the tables next door, I study the commands they have, I look at the commands that pass, I judge everything. And doing all that happens around me in the restaurant is as important as the discussion I have with people. So sometimes I can seem a little distracted because I'm listening to the conversation next door or doing a lot of stuff like that in environments that are noisy and dynamic (restaurants, bars, etc.).
I live in Paris in a place that is quite lively. As soon as I walk in the street I still find it difficult to follow things and be a little Zen because I feel completely assaulted everywhere and I feel like I'm overloaded because I take too much information all the time. I store everything and everything is also important. I watch out for absolutely everything and all this makes the high potential quickly feel overloaded.
The HIP Don't happen, as I said, to prioritize information. We don't hierarchy at all.
What's funny (I'll tell you a little story) is that when my psychologist talked about this latent inhibition deficit for the first time I was in her office. She said, "Here's Paul I'm sure you're coming, at the same time that we're talking and we're talking, you can tell me what the music is in the waiting room, the number of cars that passed behind me [there was the window on the street behind her], the books in my library...". She said a lot of other things like that, and actually I could say everything. At the same time as I was talking to her, the music in the waiting room was just as important to me, and I was listening to her at the same time. I captured everything that was going on in the street, but I didn't know. It was really weird at the moment. I couldn't prioritize. I couldn't just focus on her, like a kid in class who can't just focus on the teacher.
