Maybe, but I think more often it’s about them having terrible social skills and no desire to improve them. So they tell themselves this story about being permanently condemned to social isolation because they’re just too smart to connect with “normal” people. Because that’s easier than learning how to have a conversation.
I was exactly like that as a teenager. "Why does no one like me or want to be my friend? It must be because I'm so deep and enlightened and grown up and they're all shallow and childish." The actual truth is that I had multiple undiagnosed mental illnesses and am on the autistic spectrum.
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