Who am I?

This might seem like an odd title for a blog post, but it comes as a result of hearing an opinion about me from a friend of a friend. The opinion itself is not important, but it wasn't how I perceive myself, which got me wondering about how people interpret what they read here and build their own picture of what they think I am like.

I realise that I am fairly strict about keeping on-topic in the various aspects of my life. I have to play the demands of these different areas against each other so that I can try and steer the best course, and the complete me is a combination of all of these aspects and their prioritisation.

On this blog the key focus is obviously HSP. There is some overlap with my work being chair of the UK HSP Support Group, and various family and friends get the odd mention here and there in passing when relevant to the HSP story. On the opposite side, this blog doesn't (typically) report what I get up to at work because that isn't relevant to HSP. 

Keeping on-topic helps me to know where to go to find something I've previously said or thought, and it also should help people who are interested in what I am interested in.

In reality there are very few people who have sight of all the different aspects of my life, and actually I need to have different attitudes for different elements in order for them to work successfully, and my 'trick' is to try and borrow skills from different areas when needed, although I try and make sure that my values underlie everything which I do so that there is some reasonable degree of consistency.

In conclusion, it isn't surprising that people have different opinions about what I am like, but I hope that the underlying consistencies reduces the variation in these. I'm never going to be able to account for the more unusual opinions, but this reminds me to continue to try and write in an unambiguous style.