Since this is a gifted issues forum, I hope I am not the only one who feels burnt out/frustrated with the cognitive dynamic of having a deeper understanding of the world around me than most anyone I have in my life (ok, I confess- it's everyone). It took me until my early 30's to revise my good-faith assumption that many other people in society were just as capable as I at comprehending/understanding the things that happen to us and which are around us in society, the world, etc.
But it would seem, over and over again, that they do not.
Now, tell me if I am off here in my summing up of 'objective reality': Every single thing that we observe in life is part of a vast web of potential inter-relatedness, meaning- nothing is B&W, the answers to many questions need to be prefaced with "it depends", and any given issue is necessarily complex in it's make up (in terms of the hows and whys). Once I said to someone I knew who was also highly gifted- "Ok, tell me if you agree- just look at anything around us, and could you see each thing as having a (figurative)little 'meter' floating next to it representing 1-100? The numbers representing the degree to which each figures importance-wise into your current situation?" She immediately said "YES!" as if she had thought she was the only one to think so, and had found a long lost relative.
Ok, where I am going with this is- most people not only do not see the world as populated by complex webs of situation-relative relationships (a tall order, I know!), but they more often than not see the world in a linear, over-simple and (to me) unimaginative fashion that taxes my faith in my fellow people, at times at least.
Am I the only one here?
