NVLD Neurodiversity Explained: Why Highly Intelligent People Often Feel Socially Exhausted (opens in new tab)

A woman at a dinner party explains a complicated political idea brilliantly, misses three separate signals that everyone is ready to leave, laughs half a second too late at a joke, knocks over a water glass while reaching for her coat, apologizes too intensely, then spends the entire drive home replaying the evening like a congressional investigation. This is the sort of thing that happens to many people with NVLD. Not because they are unintelligent. Often because they are highly intelligent....