Giftedness often goes hand-in-hand with emotional intensity. Just as a gifted child's thinking is more complex than his or her peers', so too are their emotions more complex and more intense. The emotional intensity in the gifted is not just a matter of feeling "more", but it is an entirely different way of experiencing the world; vivid, absorbing, penetrating, complex, encompassing, commanding. This intensity can be expressed in a variety of ways:as intensity of fee [...]