.....   just explain this to your environment and remember not to drink
coffee  in such cases ....   ;)

Janet Mifflin wrote:

> Dear group,
>
> This is my first posting to the list.  I too am a CP with a very
> sensitive startle reflex.  I really can relate to the experiences posted
> so far.  Potentially anything will make me jump:  a ringing telephone,
> someone coming up behind me, a professor pounding the lectern when
> making a point, etc.
>
> I just started a new job a few weeks ago.  My new co-workers aren't used
> to my jumpiness.  I'm always more jumpy in a new environment.  It's
> getting frustrating.
>
> Has any CP with this sensitivity found anything that *he or she* can do
> to help this?
>
> Thanks,
> Janet