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I wonder if these people are just a bit thick, eccentric, or if they are smart enough to know that they are basically protected and untouchable due to having valuable skills that are in such demand so there is literally no benefit to them in engaging with 'lower level life' and attaining actual life skills.
Failing to pick up basic life skills isn't the preserve of the super-intelligent. There may be a degree of obsessive interest in theoretical matters that limits experience of real-life interactions and tasks (like a football prodigy having no idea how to do anything but play football, because he's always been nurtured to do only that). Alternatively it could just be common-or-garden cluelessness as seen in a small percentage of people across all demographics, which is just thrown into sharp relief by their obvious intelligence in a specific area.
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Alternatively it could just be common-or-garden cluelessness as seen in a small percentage of people across all demographics, which is just thrown into sharp relief by their obvious intelligence in a specific area.
Never thought about that, but it sounds on the money and will be the theory I extol going forward as though I came up with it.
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I wonder if these people are just a bit thick, eccentric, or if they are smart enough to know that they are basically protected and untouchable due to having valuable skills that are in such demand so there is literally no benefit to them in engaging with 'lower level life' and attaining actual life skills.
tl;dr someone has to clean the toilet but it's not going to be them