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It's not even an issue of "mental resilience". Pair programming, like any other close human interaction, is strongly weighted toward the most aggressive or insensitive (or autistic) personality. And in the tech world, it's very easy to encounter people more weighted toward the autistic end of the spectrum. Pair one of those with one of the HSP people, and you have a really shitty combination. The HSP will expend most…
Just a heads up, HSP is often comorbid with autism as are plenty of other atypical sensory processing manifestations.
Highly sensitive people, however, seem to be given to feeling the emotions of others without even the necessity of verbal indications.
In my experience, they are opposite ends of some spectrum. Perhaps "normal" people fall rather in the middle.