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Welcome to the forum Wally and thanks for posting on this thread.
I agree with you about labels and we are so much more...but what these authors are doing (2 of them are doctors) is normalizing this as a personality trait - otherwise HSPs are pathologized - both by the medical establishment as having some kind of anxiety disorder (which HSP is not but which it can trigger) and by society - at least Western society - where so much seems to be biased towards extroversion and there is quite a lot of bullying (especially in the workplace and some kinds of social events). HSPs are not sensitive by choice, it's just the way we're wired - and I totally believe that as I have lived it all my life - and nobody gets us, or very very few. I'm just grateful that it's being "languaged" in a more positive way in the part of the world where I live and have to deal with it all the time.
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