being a genius would be sad

fizix2
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:38:04 +0000

If a 12-year-old has the intellect of an 18-year-old, they are going to have a hard time making friends with the average person their age. Would they even be interested in doing so?



It’s better than trying to make friends with people older than you.
I’m 17 and in a bunch of graduate math classes. I’ve never found people who really connect with me because the kids in my class are 26 and married with three business degrees. They are nice to me and we have conversations before class, but they’re usually about math because that’s the only thing we have in common.

People my age tend to like me a lot more. All I have to do is not bring up anything academic and voila, I’m not different anymore. I might be smart and think about life a lot but I still worry about friends and boys and all the things normal teenagers worry about. Please understand that smart people aren’t some sort of alien species. Nor are we more mature and more capable of dealing with the world just because we’re smart.

Also, you guys should read Ender’s Game.