Originally Posted by Dude
Apart from being highly emotional, she's neurotypical. And because she's so mature and has a desire to please, she bottles up that emotional intensity so well in public that few outside the family would ever expect it.

This! But then again, such a range between "emotional," which is NT, and "highly emotional," which is an OE typical of highly gifted people (and not really AT).

She thought she could, so she did.