Thank you for writing about this and I hope you continue to do so. It was an article of yours HSP is Autistic Autistic Autistic that led me to get a diagnosis. The HSP label always struck me as wrong. It failed to accurately depict my experience as struggling and piled on the compliments about how great being an HSP was. The Alanis Morisette documentary dumbed down the topic by zoning in on "sensitive girls" as if we now have found a solution in listening to ballads about our suffering. The HSP label damages all of us by continuing to deny that if you look "normal enough" you aren't autistic. It robs us of a valid, accurate, honest description of our condition. It invalidates us in a way that feels like gaslighting. Elaine Aron is an intelligent person. I can't figure out if her ego, greed, or academic reputation is what's stopping her from trashing this gobbledygook. Maybe just that fact that HSP is her unique contribution and without it, she would be othered, and having been othered her whole life, she just doesn't have the cojones to do it....which is understandable--most people don't.. I do think she's spot on in one respect: there are far, far more people with the autistic "trait" than science has identified. Her 15-20% figure is a lot closer than 3%.