Does Being Smart Mean You Don’t Have Any Social Skills?

It's about being around others who are like you often enough. No easy task in typical school settings!

The issue of feeling normal or fitting easily into our environments so that we feel like we belong and are welcome, is a deep and pervasive issue for many highly intelligent, gifted, people of all ages.

I have long been interested in what makes people feel like they don’t belong. This feeling of not quite “getting it” myself led to my actively exploring …