[erikerikson]

Coming to consciousness in a world of people that gets angry with you when your thoughts challenge them too much (and you were just trying to set context), withhold the majority of social experiences and needs from you, and decide you are magic but to be subjected as fantastically exploitable because they have social control is hard. Add that they simply don't know what to do with you, how to support or challenge you, and decide basically that you're not worth the challenge you present. You have to not only survive facing bigger challenges and thoughts without the support and canned solutions most receive but you have to do it largely alone with a smaller set of your needs met.

I suggest you aren't surrounded by idiots but by people that are normal and mostly doing their imperfect best. The idiots are on the far other side of the bell curve and there are fewer of them. Imagine for a bit trying to survive as them with as little understanding as they have and the limited scope of perspective. You'd struggle and develop heuristics and tribes to survive too. I don't expect this to help much but perhaps you can find some grace when you interact. Speaking for myself, the frustration and anger I used to feel on that interface was corrosive to myself and I prefer the increased peace I have now.

I have found it an existence I would not consent to but I also care too much about some of the people in my life to opt out.