I felt like that until I was 19. I joined Mensa, and found people who loved puzzles, knowledge, intelligence and discussion.
When I moved town and did my PhD I found the local Mensans complete prats, but the university gave me the stimulation I needed.
You need to find people with whom you can be yourself, but equally, you need to learn how to get on with people in general. I learned a lot from Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." It's almost a manual for how to problem-solve your way through the challenge of social interaction. Recognise that others have needs and desires, and sometimes that means you shouldn't try to educate them. There are times when it's of no value.
Recognise too that sometimes others are just as smart as you, but in different fields of expertise. Learn to learn from them.
Stay true to yourself, learn to interact with people generally, respect people as individuals, ...
That's the trick! Find something interesting about people. People want to be appreciated and /almost/ everyone has something to appreciate. As an intelligent person, your job isn't to be more interesting than other people, it is to find the interesting things in others.
It's like playing games. Over time, if you always win, people stop wanting to playing with you. Find games they can win and lose frequently until you win all the time then find a new game to play with them together.
"The reason I've managed to make the connections I desired is that I'm fascinated by people's stories. Beneath the small-talk surface, every life is a fascinating novel, so I always follow the suggestion from Proverbs 4:7, "With all thy getting get understanding." This directive means stand under, in the relatively lowly position of student, and let whomever we're trying to understand occupy the high ground of teacher."
Be the student. Let someone teach you.
From a sex/relationship advice article but very true.
When I moved town and did my PhD I found the local Mensans complete prats, but the university gave me the stimulation I needed.
You need to find people with whom you can be yourself, but equally, you need to learn how to get on with people in general. I learned a lot from Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." It's almost a manual for how to problem-solve your way through the challenge of social interaction. Recognise that others have needs and desires, and sometimes that means you shouldn't try to educate them. There are times when it's of no value.
Recognise too that sometimes others are just as smart as you, but in different fields of expertise. Learn to learn from them.
Stay true to yourself, learn to interact with people generally, respect people as individuals, ...
Seek out those with whom you can be yourself.
They do exist.