- An intense drive to explore, understand and master the environment. This drive can feel like a powerful physiological force that is difficult to describe and hard to control or direct
- Intense motivation to explore “big” ideas and “big problems” in detail and in depth.
- A capacity for learning that is immediate and effortless:
- Their unusual capacity to combine razor sharp logical and uncanny intuition makes them bored and inpatient with conventional teaching and standard educational settings
- A capacity for precocious accomplishments in many domains – intellectual, artistic, athletic, musical
- Extra sensitivities:
- Physical sensitivities: light, temperature, sound, food, fabric
- Intense allergic responses
- Aesthetic sensitivities: color, rhythm, form, space – a sophisticated sense of beauty well in advance of their years
- A capacity to “tune into” inanimate objects – a special fascination and capacity to bond with the physical environment
- Emotional sensitivies
- Empathy for other people’s pain and suffering
- Emotional insight into others personality structure, intellect and conflicts
Dr. Jerald Grobman, M.D.
Jerald Grobman, MD Dr.Grobman is a a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine, a board certified psychiatrist, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. .For the past 40 years he has been in private practice specializing in the assessment and psychotherapy of gifted adolescents and adults. His website, his publications on underachievement in gifted adolescents and young adults .... Read MoreMadelon Sann, LCSW
Madelon Sann is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Social Work. She is a licensed clinical social worker, a certified supervisor of the psychotherapeutic process and a certified group psychoanalyst. She maintains private practices in New York and New Jersey.
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