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Why high analytical ability can coexist with social blindness

I can solve differential equations but I cannot tell when someone is being sarcastic and it makes me feel like an alien among humans.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Exceptional capacity in abstract reasoning may develop independently of or even at the expense of social and emotional intelligence.

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