@[email protected] Have you come across Dabrowski? The over simplified version is that he postulates that high development potential ("giftedness") isn't comorbid with emotional over excitability, but is driven by it. Well, that, or you self implode (he refers to growth via positive and negative disintegration as the excitability refuses to allow statis). I'm enormously over simplifying to the point of being dangerous inaccurate, but it may be worth a look if you haven't seen it before. dabrowskicenter.org/developm...
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@[email protected] I think that was a large part of his point - he was writing in the 70s so that was reasonably radical and it's not like there aren't still a lot of misconceptions about 'giftedness' (such a terrible term, as you say). I've seen his work and the follow on work that built on it (Silverman etc) used to push back against the idea of the 'gifted genius', mature beyond their years, striding forwards with logical certainity because being intelligent obviously means 'being able to do more of the same thing overbody else can.'
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