How do you know if you are sensitive

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I was on yahoo answers and this aspie assumed this one thing would bother me because I was tactiley sensitive.I actually liked that and she should have noticed by my question.It may have distracted me but this is beside the point.What qualifies as sensitive to something?I used to flinch when someone walked up because I was afraid they would touch me.I have to use my favorite soups or I am afraid my skin hurts.I think I can tolerate camera flashes but I avoid them because I hate my appearance.I definitely hate loud noises, especially if I can hear it coming from outside my room.The movies are loud but it just take detachment to go.what counts as emotionally sensitive

I'm not sure how much this will help, but:

Sensory sensitivity is all about the physical aspects of something. I can't stand loud noise either, because it hurts my ears and makes my head feel like it's exploding--but my "loud" is most people's "ordinary." I can stand light touch because it prickles like dry grass and makes me twitch involuntarily. Most people don't experience these things as strongly as I do, so I'm more sensitive than the "norm"....

Emotional sensitivity is harder to define, because you can't really measure it objectively. If a person's behavioral reactions to emotional situations are really "extreme" compared to the norm, that could be an indication that they're more emotionally sensitive than most people.....stronger reactions tend to go with stronger emotions...but emotions are really complicated, and subjective. I know there's a book called "The Highly Sensitive Person" that I think is about emotional sensitivity.....I've heard good things about it.

I'm take things more personally than others and I cry more easily than others.

sensory sensitivity can take many forms; also, it's not purely being *more* sensitive, more like a different level of sensitivity.
for example; i really hate having light touches (mainly people walking past you and accidentally scraping their hands against yours) but i love and even crave to be cuddled nearly every time; especially when i've had some severe sensory input, like those soft touches ironically...

for the emotional sensititivy; it is about the same story; not litterally a higher level, but a different experience.
i for one am quite easy to put down; depressions and sadness are quick to affect me and i often join a group in a sadness setting, for whatever reason.
however; anger and agression are nearly alien concepts to me. i get annoyed as a highest level of emotion; untill there is a 'real' danger, where i show defencive agression, but the NT concept of agression is very hard to understand...