Parents and teachers of gifted students are likely familiar with the intensities that come along with giftedness. Intensity can be a very positive quality in that it can fuel creativity and intellectual ability, but it often leaves gifted children feeling out of place and unable to fully grasp and understand their emotions. These intensities, or overexcitabilities (as described by Kazimierz Dabrowski), are seen throughout gifted children literature and can appear in many different forms—emotional, psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, and imaginational.