Joys,
What was going to school like for you? For me, when my DS13 started school, a flood of negative memories seemed poised to engulf me at any moments.

I'm assuminging that you do know about
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Dabrowski talked about OE's - over-excitabilities ("superstimulatabilities"), and how the gifted were extremely sensitive in a variety of areas. It's a stimulus-response difference from the norms. It means that in these 5 areas a person reacts more strongly than normal for a longer period than normal to a stimulus that may be very small. It involves not just psychological factors but central nervous system sensitivity." Stephanie Tolan

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/dabrowski.htm

but I'm sending along this link, just in case you haven't heard. We can be very intense!

Smiles,
Grinity

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