Highly sensitive person - HSP

Highly Sensitive Person, also known as the HSP.
I think I am one. And I didn't know there was a term for people like these.
There must be quite a lot of us because lately I am finding more and more articles and book on it.
Definition of HSP is available if you google on it, it's that common.

Basically I can absorb other people's emotions and feel it.
I realised I was this way in my twenties.
Whenever I talked to my clients I felt like I had my parabola antenna open, trying to absorb every feeling they had for their product/company/whatever they needed the design on.
Because I have always felt that I am creating/designing what others can't visualize and that it was my job to do so to help them express/communicate/sell their things and get the messages across.

There is a tiny problem though.
I have my parabola antenna open to feel and catch their words/emotions/desires but most people are very emotionally healthy/strong and they are very blunt (in my opinion) with worlds sometimes when they don't see what they want (okay, it may be partly my job to satisfy them) but because I have my naked and raw parabola of feel-sensitively antenna out, the blunt words hurt so bad. And every time I feel it I am letting them slash me with a sharp knife. Thus my antenna bleeds.
My (used to be) colleagues told me to stop being so sensitive and stop receiving all words so personally, it's just part of the job I shouldn't get so attached. It sounds like I want to hear sugar coated comments all the time but that is not it. I don't mind redesigning or retouching anything.. I just need them to be nicer... hurt me less so I can work better.

And now I know why I am this way, I am just really sensitive.
I am born this way so I can't change anything but I am going to think this is what makes the unique me. Just like Leigh :) she is super sensitive too and I guess she gets it from me.

And.... I have been wondering if I should say this on my blog or not because I think people will think I am crazy if I said this. Even I would think it a little fishy if someone else said it a few months ago. Lately, I have been feeling weird things happening around.
And you will think I am going nuts but sometimes I can even feel the pain others feel both emotionally and physically. (of course not all the time, thank goodness!)
Sometimes I feel a rush of sadness/surprise/happiness and a few hours (for no reason and I am thinking "am I going crazy? hormone imbalance?") later someone tells me something that will make me feel exactly the same sort of sadness/surprise/happiness I felt hours before.
What is this? hourly fortune telling?? haha.
It bothers me a little too much lately (just a paranoia?) because it happens a lot... at least once a day.
Just the emotion, not seeing the future or anything... if that happens, I would freak out.