&gt;I think that there&#x27;s plenty of intelligent kids who are able to devote part of their intelligence to noticing the whole lord of the flies going around and figuring that it&#x27;s better to not raise you hand when teacher asks question<p>I think these come from different sorts of intelligence.  You can be intelligent in regards to knowing the right answer but be stupid in regards to knowing that you shouldn&#x27;t be a know-it-all.  Or you could lack the ability to evaluate the advice of adults and thus fully believe what they say at face value (which when combined with the peer-pressure is evil message can lead to optimizing social interactions in some of the worst ways possible).<p>Those who are gifted socially and in other ways are likely to have far less trouble.  I think the gifted who have problems are those gifted in some way, but who are below average in terms of social skills, because the ways they are gifted leads to adults missing that the ways they are challenged.