I had a room mate in college who was very intelligent, in terms of brain power. He was very gifted in many ways, but he wasn't a very high level abstract thinker. He was essentially on of those people who are smart enough to frequently be correct in their assumptions, but not quite smart enough to actually grasp the fallacy behind trusting any assumption simply because most of them are accurate.

My sense of humor is...odd and sometimes I would joke around sarcastically by saying something purposefully stupid, something that in my mind, was so stupid that I was obviously joking. Something like "of course some people think the world is flat...I mean they have a legitimate claim, it's not like satellites have cameras and can take photos, it's not like you can prove it mathematically from the ground". He would then get super derisive and correct me. And so I would just blink for a second and say......."uh, dude.....that was a joke".

Then he would act like I was trying to cover my ass, saying something like "sigh....mocking laugh no, no you weren't joking". We were really good friends until this happened the first time, he seemed to lose respect for me after. It happened a few more times, until I finally just stopped trying to be his friend, as he had already become cold.

I also have ADHD and my psychiatrist (who I only have to see once a year for medication consultations) literally face-palms almost every time I ask him a question. And these aren't stupid questions. He treats me like he thinks I'm trying to manipulate him or trying to be contentious, when in reality I'm being 100% earnest. I honestly think he's intimidated by my awareness and questions he might not even know the answer to. He's a dick and I actually get amusement out of these experiences. But I always wonder if he really thinks I'm stupid or if he is just attempting to make me feel stupid, or maybe he just doesn't like me.

For me, I always felt like I was asleep, until my early twenties. I'm not quite sure what it was ( I was always smart in my own way) but I just kind of woke up in the college environment. Since then, most people I meet comment on me being smart, so it's always interesting when I run into somebody who thinks I'm stupid. Most of the time it's the people who simply lack the capcity to grasp what in reality is a complex concept that ends up eming stupid to them because in their mind it makes no sense. Common sense thinkers are a huge frustration for me, but I'm slowly learning to just roll with the world an its endless masses of people who will never identify with me and vice versa.

I realize what I wrote probably sounds a bit pretentious, but I don't like to sugarcoat things. The majority of people on this planet cannot think at my level, and I consider that a curse more than something to be proud of because it leads to problems like the ones discussed in this thread.