What is Reddit's opinion of Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults?

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Fellow smart kid here. Being gifted or in the upper levels of intelligence carries a LOT of downsides. Please educate yourself and be aware. Mental illness risks are a lot higher as they get older.

One of our children had suicidal thoughts in the third grade. Thankfully she talked to us about it and we got her help. It starts early. Prepare yourself and try and enjoy the ride.

Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults https://www.amazon.com/dp/0910707898/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_XBlkDbR122PWY

That book helped me understand myself as well as other gifted people. There are other books on Amazon specifically aimed at parenting gifted kids.

As a gifted person, getting informed is a powerful tool in your journey to harness your mind and your emotions. Here are some excellent resources: https://intergifted.com/what-is-giftedness/, https://www.amazon.com/Living-Intensity-Understanding-Sensitivity-Excitability/dp/0910707898, and https://www.sengifted.org/. Proud of you for reaching out and don't stop until you find your answers, and your people.

It sounds like your child is gifted and aren’t getting what they need to thrive in this world. Check out this website and see if it applies to your situation. https://rainforestmind.wordpress.com/

Edit: if they genuinely are 1% in their classes then it’s not adhd or a learning disability. Gifted people often have very severe needs and sensitivities and their family members become sick of their extraordinary needs compared to a “regular” person. They are often misdiagnosed with many different mental illnesses from bipolar to adhd which can inhibit their access to the vast amount things they want to fill their brain with. There’s another book that you can look at from Amazon called “Living With Intensity” which is very helpful at explaining this sort of thing and providing ways to make everything go more smoothly for individuals and families who deal with giftedness. https://www.amazon.com/Living-Intensity-Understanding-Sensitivity-Excitability/dp/0910707898

This is from the product description. “Gifted children and adults are often misunderstood. Their excitement is viewed as excessive, their high energy as hyperactivity, their persistence as nagging, their imagination as not paying attention, their passion as being disruptive, their strong emotions and sensitivity as immaturity, their creativity and self-directedness as oppositional.”

Dabrowski's works are still very available on the internet. http://positivedisintegration.com/

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You can also just type in "Dabrowski" on amazon. I highly recommend the book "Living with Intensity".

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https://www.amazon.com/Living-Intensity-Understanding-Sensitivity-Excitability/dp/0910707898/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Dabrowski&qid=1563657833&s=gateway&sr=8-1

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Some papers...

Overexcitability and the highly gifted child

http://www.davidsongifted.org/Search-Database/entry/A10102

Tips for Parents: Beyond Overexcitabilities: A Crash Course in Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration

http://www.davidsongifted.org/Search-Database/entry/A10858

the book " living with intensity" :https://www.amazon.ca/Living-Intensity-Understanding-Sensitivity-Excitability/dp/0910707898/ref=asc_df_0910707898/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309747941035&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12048595505184038224&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1001801&hvtargid=pla-435315578638&psc=1

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also is a good start for explaining the theory of positive disintegration and how to apply it to your gifted child. it is VERY accurate and has some good strategies.

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My son is a kindergartener who also doesn't like talking about his moods, partially i think because he can get trapped in colouring his entire day with his current emotion (either really good or really bad), or he goes through such an array of moods in a day, he has a hard time separating out one from the rest. There is a journal I've seen on the internet that is similar to a mindfulness journal, that has faces to explain moods, which i have been thinking of getting for him. He is better at "bucket full, half full or empty" analogies, and I check in with him occasionally on that, as well as "who filled your bucket today, who's bucket did you help fill?". I think the analogy is easier for him then analyzing the huge array of moods and feelings he is pounded with all day.

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does your public school support IPP's? that shouldn't require funding, and will open up resources for free, at least in canada.

>arguing with you over how "gifted" you think you are.

Dude. Read a fucking book: https://www.amazon.com/Living-Intensity-Understanding-Sensitivity-Excitability/dp/0910707898