I never really made friends anywhere, but I did come close with the other gifted/talented kids in my school. There was a group of about 13 of us. I met another gifted kid, by some miracle, through online gaming, and he and I have been together now for 13 years.
I know almost nobody else, aside from family, and sometimes they are just so painfully stupid. Don't get me wrong, I love most of them. But I cannot have a stimulating conversation with any of them. I have hope, though, that my 9 year old niece will grow into someone I can talk to.
She is so smart that I am at once filled with admiration, and pity. Pity, because I know it will be hard for her. I know the road is paved with isolation. And she may not be as lucky as I was, to find a companion so early in my life. I was 14 or 15 when I met my spouse. I was only ~6 years older than my niece is now.
I won't be having children of my own because of a lot of reasons, but I am absolutely terrified of giving birth to a normal child. I don't think I could relate to him or her. And I am mortified that there is a possibility that my child could be like me, and the father. I do not wish this loneliness on my offspring, so I will not have any.
Intellectual abilities and disabilities run in my family. I am "gifted". My brother has ADD and dyslexia. I have a cousin who is gifted, and his brother has learning disabilities as well. There are pairs of siblings going back generations like this in my family. And in my spouse's family too: his father has an IQ of 82, but his uncle was gifted (and did actually kill himself).
I am a housewife, because migraines keep me out of work. I haven't met a new person since I was in college, until I met spouse's co-workers. One of whom is so infuriatingly stupid that it astounds me. Apparently he's a good software developer, but the man is in his 40's and didn't know what Auschwitz was. He also didn't know that "monkey" could be used as a racial slur. He is adamant that Christianity is not a religion. I do not know how to deal with such stupidity, and I have been isolated for so long that I am finding I have zero tolerance for it. Which is such a shame, because he and his family are good people. I even like their kids.
He is a good Christian morally, which is so hard to find, and something I respect. I'm not religious myself, but I try to hold by my morals and I admire anyone who can take on the teachings of Christ wholeheartedly, like this man has done. But it bothered me greatly when he told me Christianity wasn't a religion, and I was dumbfounded when he asked what Auschwitz was.
I do not know how to act around him.