Why Every School Needs to Understand High Sensory Intelligence (Before It’s Too Late)

There’s a silent struggle happening in classrooms around the world.

Children who feel everything. Who sense the mood in the room before the teacher walks in.
Who cry when others are hurt.
Who shut down under bright lights and loud bells.
Who don’t know why they feel so different, but know they can’t keep pretending to be normal.

These are Highly Sensitive/High Sensory Children. And the system is failing them.

As someone born with High Sensory Intelligence (also known as Sensory Processing Sensitivity), I lived through the overwhelm. The misdiagnosis. The shame.

I wasn’t broken. I wasn’t weak. I was high-functioning in a low-awareness world.

And I believe no child should have to suffer through years of confusion, self-doubt, anxiety, or depression simply because no one told them that their nervous system was different by design.

What’s At Stake:

▪ Anxiety. Depression. Chronic illness.

▪ Creative gifts buried under shame.

▪ The spark of true identity lost to societal conditioning.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.
20–30% of the human population has this trait. It’s biological. It’s not a disorder. And it’s time we built systems that honour sensitivity instead of suppressing it.

That’s why I’m building a simple, accessible education program; one that trains teachers and students to understand, advocate for, and celebrate High Sensory Intelligence.

Imagine a school where children learn how their sensitivity works. Where nervous system awareness is as standard as math. Where children stop thinking they’re broken and start seeing their sensitivity as a superpower.

This vision isn’t a dream. It’s a necessity.
Because these children will shape the future, if we stop pathologising their design and start empowering their genius.

I’m Elisha May, and I’m here to disrupt the system, lovingly. Fiercely. Intelligently.

🔥 Want to be part of the shift? Contact me to collaborate, consult, or bring this program to your school.