I was just making a comparison, one that basically everyone should be able to understand on this board ...
To people with autism, the world appears differently. People with autism think differently. Not 100% absolutely everyone obviously but a considerable majority. We perceive more details, we think in details rather than in general concepts, our perception is more sensitive. That causes us to understand the world and everything that exists on a different level and in a different manner. It also causes us to function differently. For example, we might interpret things more literal and we can rather understand the very concrete and explicitly elaborated than the abstract and loosely implied. We tend to have special interests, where we just focus on one subject but intensely. There are many more differences, which are harder, and would take more time, to explain. All those differences may make it easier to relate to people who share a similar mindset. Not everyone with autism thinks exactly in the same way or has exactly the same mental differences. But at average, the category increases the probabilities that they do. The same is true for people with high IQ.
In an analogous manner to autism, people of high intelligence have differences in their mental functioning, therefore also 'perception' and the outcomes of that. Gifted people do have conversely often no particular interest at all, because they can and do understand everything better and automatically, with little to no hurdles to overcome. That might cause them to focus on understanding everything at once and they get lost in trying to grasp all the knowledge there is, but nothing ever in personally satisfying depth. They may have social problems which are caused by being unable to relate to the people around them, because of their superior thoughts, views and understanding which are not well accepted by their peers, because the peers are simply too stupid. Also, the higher the IQ the higher the probability of suffering from a mental disorder (just like it is with autism). High IQ correlates with life success and productivity. Someone very intelligent might not be able to get a socially satisfying experience by watching a movie with other people or playing a board game, because in their eyes, both are damn retarded and so simple that you could think of it as being age-inappropriate. They could end up with a job that is not intellectually challenging enough for them to pay attention to or to take it seriously. The same could happen to them in school, even causing them to drop out and get bad grades. They might have entirely different desires and needs based on their intellectual capabilities and curiosity.
Essentially, the higher the IQ of a person, the less the difference for them between relating to people and relating to a bunch of chimpanzees. It might just make them emotionally and socially isolated.
