> In recent years, the gifted community talks a lot about "social and emotional needs of the gifted."
Thanks, it's good to know. Better communication mediums have certainly helped us find each other.
Pre-Internet was terribly terribly lonely for me. But it's getting better. I've found little help in groups or associations (MENSA, Triple 9, etc.), preferring to find individuals one at a time.
Places like HN aren't a bad place to find other "outcasts".
It can get better. In recent years, the gifted community talks a lot about "social and emotional needs of the gifted." There are conferences and the like which focus on that. Perhaps that would help?
Signed: Another "outcast," (but fairly content...though it's hard to express since, certainly, I have problems I am still trying to fix.)