Living Life Like an Open Wound

Patty Giannone
5 min readNov 12, 2020

Sensitive is not a bad word

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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been what some might call an “empath” or a highly sensitive person. It’s not always easy feeling everything around you all the time: the emotions, both positive and negative, coming off of people around you, the “vibe” in the room, the social and political environment, locally and internationally. I can’t really tell you when I first realized…

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Patty Giannone

Freelancer, writer, artist, free spirit. Learning how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. Forever the square peg in a round hole. Finally embracing it.