There Is Something Wrong With Me for Being So Sensitive with Julie Bjelland, LMFT

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How much of your life have you spent thinking something is wrong with you for being so sensitive?

Perhaps you’ve tried to need less quiet, less rest, less help, or less time to recover. Maybe you’ve become so practiced at making everyone else comfortable that recognizing your own needs feels difficult.

In this episode of The Sensitive and Neurodivergent Podcast, Julie Bjelland, LMFT, explores how being misunderstood, especially from childhood, can shape self-worth, relationships, and our ability to trust ourselves. Through a reflective poem, familiar everyday experiences, and gentle questions, she considers the hidden effort behind appearing to cope and the grief that can come with finally understanding ourselves.

This conversation honors real disability and ongoing support needs while exploring how inaccessible environments and inadequate support can add to our difficulties. Julie shares practical ways to recognize needs, reduce unnecessary demands, and begin questioning the belief that needing something different makes us fundamentally flawed.

For highly sensitive, autistic, ADHD, and other neurodivergent adults, especially women who have spent years feeling “too much” and “not enough.”

What are you carrying, and what would help?

Explore free resources, consultations, and adult autism assessments at JulieBjelland.com. Find community at SensitiveCommunity.com.

Julie Bjelland, LMFT

A psychotherapist, author, and adult autism assessor, whose work centers on highly sensitive people and late-discovered autistic women. As a late-discovered autistic woman herself, she brings both professional experience and lived understanding to conversations about sensitivity, neurodivergence, self-compassion, and making more room for who we are. Julie is the founder of The Sensitive and Neurodivergent Podcast, Community, and Blog.