Sensitivity
Remembering insults forever
Doing three things at once
Doing the outwardly foolish thing, taking up lost causes
Psychic
Interest in life and death
Driven to comprehend, complexity of understanding
Wanting to know the reasons and origins of things
Asks, “What is my purpose?”
Naive
Recognition of falsity, no “trophy friends”
Complexifying solutions
Finding non-conventional solutions, originality
Not motivated by extrinsic awards, discomfort with praise
Passionate
Undeterred by conventional expectations
Self taught, non-sequential learning
Need for precision
Recognition of unfairness, strong sense of justice
Making intuitive leaps, making logical projections
Noticing what no one else does
Manipulation and bargaining
Make and follow their own plans, less teachable
Devise practical experiments to see “What if?”
Saying, “Actually”
Large vocabulary, love of big words
Delayed in toilet training, difficulty in separating from mom
Early sense of responsibility
Not wanting to grow up and face the world
Less physical risk-taking
Zipping through Piagetian stages
Friends of both genders, later sexual interests
Abstract thinkers before having the emotional ability to handle it
Symbolic thinkers
Can animate their fears, powerful emotional imagination