Why highly sensitive children often avoid eye contact

Today we focus on sensitive children and why these highly sensitive children often avoid eye contact. To do this, I will first explain what high sensitivity is, how it develops in a child and what the link is with eye contact and possibly avoiding it.

Avoiding eye contact is a symptom of high sensitivity

High sensitivity means that people receive a lot of stimuli. More than others. Stimuli mean information. The energetic shield of these people is thin. This means that some people receive a lot of stimuli on their eyes, which causes them to avoid eye contact. High sensitivity is namely the reaction to high sensitivity. Not everyone reacts the same to processing a lot of stimuli. Children are highly sensitive very quickly. This is due to several factors. You are highly sensitive if you:

- in a previous life did a lot with your sensitivity and wanted to do that life again;
- a life lesson learns about this, for example because of karma or interest;
– if you are there have room for this life;
– finally your high sensitivity Need in this life.

As you may see, the opportunity is for children to be highly sensitive greater than for adults† You can lose high sensitivity. It's like this: children have a little less responsibility than adults. That means they remember their life lessons and past lives more easily unconsciously. An adult sometimes steps away from his intended plans.

After all, sometimes a child grows up in a safe family where there is room for high sensitivity. Or unsafe family where high sensitivity is needed to spot danger. Here too, a child is, so to speak, more helpless than an adult. He cannot simply live on his own or call for help and is easily scared at night. If a child grows up in one of these types of families but is not highly sensitive, then it is probably not his life lesson or he has no pleasant memory of past lives and no need to develop high sensitivity.

Children's response to their high sensitivity

If a child is highly sensitive, he reacts in a certain way. This is what you call high sensitivity. Every child reacts differently to their high sensitivity† Here are some signs of a highly sensitive child:

– the child is very overstimulated, which makes him tired or irritated quickly. It works like this: a child absorbs many stimuli with its thin energetic shield. However, these incentives must be removed! Because most children do not have a nice routine to discharge this, stimuli often get stuck. In terms of routines, think of consciously removing stimuli from taking a shower or exercising regularly.

– the child has chronic complaints due to hypersensitivity such as a constant cold. This means that the stimuli are stuck in his system;

– the little one simply has a lot of energy and pleasure in doing things! In this he discharges his stimuli and uses his energy well;

– the little one often has temporary complaints such as a sore throat, a backache, etc.. These are stimuli that from time to time are stored elsewhere.

As you might conclude, Many highly sensitive children prefer to avoid stimuli† They also know deep down that they are overstimulated. A useful way to avoid stimuli is not to make eye contact.

Why highly sensitive children often avoid eye contact

And other ways to avoid stimuli are isolating, wanting to be alone or wearing a hood.

In conclusion, why highly sensitive children (HSP) often avoid eye contact is because they feel better not having eye contact† Of course there can be other things at play, such as autism. But beware: autistic children can also experience overstimulation.

Tips:

What you can do is give your child control over his stimuli. When it's summer, give him a nice sunglasses for outside. But more accessible: give him control over his stimuli† Let him take a nice shower before going to sleep and rinse off the stimuli. Or give him something in his hand like a pen so that he:

1: can tickle his hand so that the charge on the eyes enters less intensely. In other words: by positively distracting oneself with stimuli (co-writing), stimuli on the eyes therefore enter less;
2: and can write with it right away so that avoiding eye contact is less noticeable.

Looking for more tips like this? Check out the video about overstimulation in children below. Or read more about spiritual reasons behind avoiding eye contact.