Can gifted children be overly sensitive?
Super-sensitivity and over-excitability in gifted children is real and can be misinterpreted as immaturity and bad behaviour. Here are some websites about super-sensitive gifted children which might provide additional insights into behaviour. http://www.stephanietolan.com/dabrowskis.htm http://www.metagifted.org/topics/gifted/dabrowski/ Research indicates that social and emotional development is on a par with intellectual development and accelerated gifted children are much advantaged by this action. Social and emotional maturity levels usually fall between chronological age and mental age in the child’s make up, unless the child is disadvantaged by being in a low challenge environment. Then you may see frustration that looks like immaturity but when the child is working with intellectual peers or on challenging materials the negative behaviours disappear and their maturity has a chance to be expressed. Of course acceleration must be well supported by awareness of gifted education issu
