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My neighbor growing up was a couple years older than me and was a fucking genius. Tested off the charts in everything and aced all his classes. But he also had issues with anxiety, motivation, was anti-social at times, etc. Because of that, he struggled a lot as he grew up. He could never really hold down a job and didn't care to have friends and the like. He knew he was basically a genius but couldn't comprehend why he wasn't successful.
He became suicidal and his parents recently took him back in at their house in NJ. He supposedly was getting a bit better. Last week he made his way to San Francisco and jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. Terrible.
So with my own anecdotal evidence, I can definitely see being "too smart" as a major problem.
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