It all started with hypersensitivity. I'm hypersensitive to practically everything, from sounds and light to medicines and emotions. Being hypersensitive is not easy. It's like everything enters your brain unfiltered and settles down. No way to shake it. It took me years to realize what was happening inside my body and mind and I'm still unable to cope with it. I've become especially sensitive to doctors, since they have always belittled me. I need baby dosages of drugs and then doctors tell me it's the placebo effect. Unfortunately the last time I took a drug in the prescribed dose, I ended up in the emergency room with a severe drug allergy. Rash, decreased liver function, the works. And seriously, this was the first time doctors understood that my body works in a mysterious way. Hypersensitivity is a blessing and a curse at the same time. A blessing, because you can truly enjoy the small things in life, and a curse because your mind gets overloaded with stimuli. It's fine when you communicate with other hypersensitive people but it's unpleasant when people or circumstances are overwhelming.