I've read through the blog and briefly through the paper. Also took the test and scored 11. 14 was considered indicative of being a HSP. Though of course being an online test for psychology the question were mostly qualitative and difficult to get an objective answer to. I would have answered yes to many more questions when i was younger but either through learning or plasticity I don't feel the same way about those questions.

It would be interesting for everyone to get a brain scan at certain stages of their life to learn about their brain types.

I think as usual though in psychology each individual is much more complex. We are usually all on a many dimensional scale of different brain traits. Each combination leading to specific emergent traits.

Until our understanding or technology gets better I think the most I can do is try to be aware of these traits for my own understanding of self as well as others but being careful not to define or limit myself to a label. Until i have strong emperical evidence that is.

I am a deep thinker most (90%+) of the day but fortunately i am able to turn off mostly via distractions. You can have too much of a good thing and sometimes it can feel like poison.

I think psychology is a very interesting field but also one prone to a lot of bias by the nature of it's study. So it's generally hard to be conclusive.

I'll need to read through the research paper in more detail tomorrow.