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[quote=Anonymous]19:37 here.

Have any of the posters with kids who share some of my daughter's traits ever read anything about Dabrowski's over-excitabilities?  A teacher once suggested she might be ADHD but we didn't see it at all.  After probing a bit and listening to our daughter I did some research and found articles on Dabrowski.

When I first read about his over-excitabilities I was amazed at how closely much of it tracked with my daughter (and one of her siblings to a lesser extent), especially her keen senses.  She has 20/10 vision, can hear the grass grow, tastes everything, feels everything (no labels in her clothes anymore) and smells everything to the point of distraction.  As she's gotten older she has learned to tune out some of the barrage of sensory input that she receives.  When she was in the early primary grades she was exhausted at the end of the school day and wanted nothing more than silence for the car ride home.  This is an aspect of her world that teachers have had the hardest time understanding --- they think it's a huge advantage to have such keen senses but they don't realize how hard it is for a child to manage all this stimuli and concentrate when you hear every creak and whisper.

And we do have a policy of not putting too many eggs in one basket.  Our kids have their nuclear family, extended family, church community, neighborhood, school, summer swimming pool, and sport's teams to draw on for companionship.  And they've happily ignored network television --- they do, however, love this show on cable called "Cake Boss."
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