 Dąbrowski's basic message is that the gifted will disproportionately display this process of positive disintegration and personality growth.The term "overexcitability" was popularized in the gifted education community by scholars such as Sal Mendaglio, who edited Dabrowski's "Theory of Positive Disintegration" and Susan Daniels and Michael M. Piechowski, who edited "Living with Intensity".Sensory processing sensitivity