Intense is THE word I would use to describe DYS DD10. She is just this tiny little ball of intensity and it manifests in various ways...not all good. She is a work in progress. She also has some pretty extreme food sensitivities and when she was younger, was rather sound sensitive (she seems to have grown out of the sound issue a bit).

Have you read about Dabrowski and Gifted Overexcitabilities? http://sengifted.org/archives/articles/overexcitability-and-the-gifted