Why do a lot of people with extremely high IQs seem a bit off?

@Myocite and that is your definition of "a bit off"?

@Yulianna no. I'm not going to write a book about it. It's just a tiny tiny tiny piece of observation/information.

@Myocite you'll have to explain to me how you got from my question to writing a book... or not, which will save us both a lot of time.

@Yulianna please.

@Yulianna Users that follow Rugby Union

@Myocite An interesting difference. Many people are comforted, socially, by talking about things like the weather, etc. They seem to require the threads of such nothingness to feel bound to each other.

When I was a teen, I was like your father, and would rather know if there were anything for which a person would give his or her life, than talk about sports, etc.

@SomeMichGuy I'm still like my father. It's taken me 50 years to be able to say stupid social niceties. I love people who skip all that waste. I do understand what you're saying but can't relate.

@Myocite

You cannot relate to what?

@SomeMichGuy being comforted by talking about the weather

@Myocite lol

Ah, yes. I think it is so...customary, that people like to follow a well-worn track because it gives them.a known something to do with strangers. So I believe it is more a measure of nearly universal concern/anxiety about meeting new people...so going down well-worn lanes provides a ready-made structure to give people a mutually non-threatening opening from which to feel out each other and get to know more.

Just a theory.

Most people are very uncomfortable talking about what sort of cause, person, etc.--if anything--they would die for, esp. without knowing that they can trust the person asking. So I think many people use low level tests to see if a new other person might be trust-worthy.

The setting, of course, helps...

@SomeMichGuy I never think about the weather unless it's relevant. Usually I don't notice people anyway and they think I'm ignoring them- so my small talk problem is solved.