[Hourglass]

Ah, yes...I did mean to "as" rather than "and". Sorry about that. And no, giant red profanity text does not make me angry, lol.

First off, I'm sorry to hear that people have attacked you. But it sort of helped to answer my question and strengthen my view on it...that a person's intelligence - high or low - can make them a target for unjust ridicule.

You did a really nice job of answering my questions, thank you. I think you made a good point when you spoke of the genius-types who are focused; I guess to the people around them it seems like they have "tunnel-vision". This at times makes them seem a bit rigid or even cold, but isn't because they're being logical instead of emotional?
I don't like to think that high intelligence comes at a price; That a person has to be lacking in the social aspect (meaning, consideration for other people's feelings) because they can answer almost any question asked of them. That seems awfully unfair, but it does seem like that's the stigma that society has cast upon high-IQ types. That they aren't "like us", they're different.

That was the comparison I meant to make when I mentioned people who were mentally challenged in my initial post; The way society can treat a person based on their brainpower (be it high or low), rather than their heart or soul.

Something else you said - "The hardest thing about the situation is that sometimes it is so frustrating that some people refuse to see reason in some areas. They have certain ideas so fixed in their minds that they are unable to see outside of the box they are in." - kind of goes hand in hand with that. They want to see everything through their own eyes, and not someone else's. Wouldn't that mean that they are really the ones who have truly never learned to relate to others, not belittle them?

Thank you again for taking time to answer my questions. This thread (and your other posts) are very nicely done, I enjoyed reading them.