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Many gifted adults, regardless of whether they participated in gifted education in their youth, still don’t identify as gifted in adulthood. 
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Nicole Kidman has talked about her personal qualities and experiences that relate to being a gifted and talented person with multiple talents.
“You live with a lot of complicated emotions as an actor, and they whirl around you and create havoc at times. …. It’s my choice, and I would rather do it this way than live to be 100. .. Or rather than choosing not to exist within life’s extremities. I’m willing to fly close to the flame.” Nicole Kidman
“Creatively gifted children and adults are emotionally intense and have rich inner lives..." Linda Kreger Silverman
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Lily Cole was bullied and thinks it was because some kids bully sensitive children. Research indicates a large portion of gifted students are bullied.
She comments, “I was bullied because I have red hair, although actually, I think I was bullied because some kids bully sensitive children."
A report from Purdue University a few years ago said “Bullying in the gifted-student population is an overlooked problem that leaves many of these students emotionally shattered, making them more prone to extreme anxiety, dangerous depression and sometimes violence.”
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Internal barriers, personal issues, and decisions faced by gifted and talented females by Sally M. Reis, Ph.D.
"It is obvious that the values of women differvery often from the values which have been made by the other sex. Yet, it is the masculine values that prevail." -- Virginia Woolf (in A Room of One's Own) "Research with talented females has revealed a number of internal barriers, personal priorities, and decisions that have consistently emerged as the reasons that many either cannot or do not realize their potential."
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“I was shy. I was a mixture of insecurities and very bossy.” J.K. Rowling added that she was “Very bossy to my sister but quite quiet with strangers. Very bookish. Terrible at school."
One of the personal qualities that seems to be shared by most gifted children is being different and divergent – in terms of thinking, interests, values and behavior.
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“I have to give everything, my everything, and that’s exhausting…But I’m going to have to figure out how.” Fiona Apple Intensity and passionate commitment are part of why we enjoy the performances and creative work of talented actors, musicians, and many other artists. It is a central personality quality of many gifted and talented, creative people. In her post Tips for Working With Emotional Intensity, Christine Fonseca notes: “Emotional intensity refers to the passion gifted people feel daily..."
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"A year ago, I attended the First International Conference on Gifted Adults. I attended mostly because it was close by and because, well, I am a gifted adult. I didn't expect to spend most of the conference crying. And I want to apologize to the presenters for any discomfort I caused them. You see, rather than follow the stages of adult giftedness that they outlined, I have periodically become stuck in a stage that I feel I should have already mastered."
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