History Main / IntelligenceEqualsIsolation

* Sakurako Amamiya has been the textbook brainy loner ever since she's been drawn into the madness of ''{{Psyren}}'', shutting herself from everyone so as not to let anyone else be damaged by it. We know she hasn't always been like this because, just as she is introduced, Yoshina remembers a time when, as a child, she was much more joyful and open to the world.

* Sakurako Amamiya has been the textbook brainy loner ever since she's been drawn into the madness of {{Psyren}}, shutting herself from everyone so as not to let anyone else be damaged by it. We know she hasn't always been like this because, just as she is introduced, Yoshina remembers a time when, as a child, she was much more joyful and open to the world.

* Yukimitsu from ''{{Eyeshield 21}}''. His parents forced him into CramSchool and became extremely sheltered, envying the sports teams from his room. Due to his years of being in school, he lacked physical strength, and could never play for more than half a game.

* Keiichi from {{Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni}} is shown to be in flashbacks. In becomes evident in Tatarigoroshi-hen arc where he gets high grades to impress his parents and teachers. However, the result lead to isolation from the rest of the class and pulling horrible pranks on him such as leaving a dead rat on his desk. Everything goes down from there until he moves to Hinazawa. When he arrives, that's when he changed his persona to {{Book Dumb}}.

* L, Mello and Near of ''DeathNote''. Light is the "well-liked and admired but feels very alone" variant. Maybe even the author - he certainly likes this trope.

** Mycroft as well. He prefers his own company to the extent that he ''started a club whose members are forbidden to speak to each other''.

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-> ''--You're going to go through life thinking [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation girls don't like you]] cause [[InsufferableGenius you're a nerd]]. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an [[JerkAss asshole!]]''

-> ''--You'll go through life thinking [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation girls dislike you]] cause [[InsufferableGenius you're a nerd]]. But it's not true: they'll dislike you cause you're an [[JerkAss asshole!]]''
-->-- Erica to Mark Zuckerberg, ''TheSocialNetwork''

Depending on which neuroscientific theory one subscribes to, the trope name is quite literal: Those with more intelligence have a higher rate of disorders of some kind that nly part of it. There are examples of smart people who are popular with others but still feel that their intelligence isolates them. It's pretty difficult to find common ground when your thoughts are too complicated to explain to others, after all.
A form of Blessed With Suck. Compare Eating Lunch Alone. May or may not include elements of Loners Are Freaks. Often used as a justification for why Dumb Is Good. Contrast with Gentleman And A Scholar, when a smart guy is well-liked and lacks none of the social graces.virtually guarantees this, especially if they attend a school with separate programs for people with those disorders, such as students within the autism spectrum, no matter what disorder in specific, taking tests separately from other students along with extended time. While beneficial, that practically makes this an institutionally-enforced trope!

Depending on which neuroscientific theory one subscribes to, the trope name is quite literal: Those with more intelligence have a higher rate of disorders of some kind that virtually guarantees this, especially if they attend a school with separate programs for people with those disorders, such as students within the autism spectrum, no matter what disorder in specific, taking tests separately from other students along with extended time. While beneficial, that practically makes this an institutionally-enforced trope!

Note that this is not just about popularity with others, although that's certainly part of it. There are examples of smart people who are popular with others but still feel that their intelligence isolates them. It's pretty difficult to find common ground when your thoughts are too complicated to explain to others, after all.

A form of BlessedWithSuck. Compare EatingLunchAlone. May or may not include elements of LonersAreFreaks. Often used as a justification for why DumbIsGood. Contrast with GentlemanAndAScholar, when a smart guy is well-liked and lacks none of the social graces.

* Robin as a child in ''OnePiece''. A fully-certified archeologist capable of reading a long-forgotten language at the age of ''eight'', she was often [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer bullied and kept apart from other children]] due in part to her status as [[ParentalAbandonment an abandoned child]] as well as [[CursedWithAwesome a Devil Fruit user]].

** [[BrilliantButLazy Shikamaru]] is complicated because for the longest time no one ''knew'' he was intelligent and he had so few friends because he so lazy. He hid his intelligence less because he was afraid of becoming isolated (in either the physical or mental/emotional manner) and more because [[{{Dismotivation}} it might lead to more work]].

* Lisa on ''TheSimpsons,'' depending on the mood of the writer.
** In earlier seasons Lisa had a best friend called Janey and had quite a lot of friends, but [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse they got pushed aside and forgotten.]]

* Jimmy on ''JimmyNeutron''. He actually purposely made himself stupid in one episode to end his misery, but the thing it set far below average so we don't know if this might have worked.

* ''Pokemon'' gives us two seperate descriptions of [[BigBad Cyrus]] as a child that tell us that he was both highly intelligent and that he shunned people and prefered machines.

-->''Being the smartest kid in class is like being the ''only'' kid in class.''\\

This trope is about characters or people, mostly in high school, who are very smart and suffer for it, being [[FriendlessBackground unable to relate]] to the mundane worries and shallow personalities of their comrades, as well as being bored out of their skulls by the mandatory classes (nothing is as depressing as having to correct the teacher). Sometimes they use ObfuscatingStupidity, but if their parents demand grades, and they get them, their classmates can get jealous, which can lead to tragic bullying. Too often TruthInTelevision.

A form of BlessedWithSuck. Compare EatingLunchAlone. May or may not include elements of LonersAreFreaks.Often used as a justification for why DumbIsGood. Contrast with GentlemanAndAScholar, when a smart guy is well-liked and lacks none of the social graces.