Originally Posted by RRD
Originally Posted by Platypus101
Where angels fear to tread - what a thread!
Indeed! I had no idea I was opening such a Pandora's box...

Originally Posted by Platypus101
The OP was talking about a kid far off the norms of intensity, not *most* gifted kids. Here, as everywhere, what works for the majority fails for the extremes.
Are not many/most gifted kids this intense? I was under the impression that many/most GC have the emotional overexcitabilities.
I would say some, rather than most. Many GC have high emotional intelligence, but not necessarily emotional OEs. (Just as there are also non-GC who have high EQs, emotional intensity, or both.)

...pronounced like the long vowel and first letter of the alphabet...