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Being in the top 1% (or 0.1%) of the smartest people probably comes with its fair share of tradeoffs. For example I bet you find a ton of autistic people here with quite poor social skills which probably makes them appear more unintelligent to the average neurotypical person than they are.
Also what is intelligence anyway? For me personally what makes someone smart is not what they know but how they think.
Your assumption that intelligence means social tradeoffs is a nonsense. Intelligent people are more likely to be diagnosed with autism., adhd etc but that's from very low numbers in the population and also likely an in built bias. For example it's reasonable to assume more intelligent people are more likely to be aware there is an issue and go and seek a diagnosis. That doesn't mean the diagnosis is more common with intelligent people.
It is also a stereotype to assume intelligent people are emotionally incapable.
Frankly, we live in a society where the majority seemingly wish to see intelligence as some form of disability in itself. It's bizarre. I have to say I see this coming from US culture more than anywhere else (nerd and geek as insults for being intelligent for example; there aren't UK English equivalents).
We seem to be living in a society which celebrates mediocrity of intelligence and paints intelligence as something to be suspicious of or a bad thing. The most famous and lauded people are sports stars, music stars, film stars. A few writers, business people and scientists get a look in but ultimately we celebrate people doing pointless things like running faster more than we celebrate people winning Nobel prizes for science or pushing forward technology and medicine.
I don't understand what you base your claim on that the assumption is nonsense. I'm just speculating and I think there's greater that 0% chance that there might be a correlation there. You to then just come and confidently call it nonsense seems a bit arrogant.
Independent thought and action. Sensitivity without fragility. Those are high points.
The 99% is like a grain of sand embedded in a glacier. Moves with the glacier.