I've thought the same at times but concluded that it depends on one's patience and the time and effort one is willing to devote to communication. The phrase "pu

I've thought the same at times but concluded that it depends on one's patience and the time and effort one is willing to devote to communication. The phrase "putting oneself in the other person's shoes" seems to best describe what's necessary. Perhaps that skill is something that, while socially very useful, IQ tests fail to measure. Heck, we can even communicate with other animals to some degree. Aside: it appears that, rather than describing only the article's subjects' problems with very high IQ, there may be a variety of problems being expressed here by posters, varying from a very high IQ to grandiosity, ADHD, autism, indeed the full spectrum of psychological disorders plus normal behavior. It's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.