I think that exhibiting sensitities makes a child very vulnerable. I believe that any gifted child would go to school with a hardened persona. When I speak to parents of gifted children and mention that I had to cut the tags out of my kids clothes, that they couldn't go to school unless their socks did not have the crease crooked aross their toes, and that they couldn't stand the smell of juice, even someone elses and that we couldn't attent the local parade because the fire engines ran their sirens... (I could go on all day) These parents all have similar stories. I don't think you would know any of these things from meeting my middle schooler.
