Gifted - and Lonely

From an autobiographical sketch of sci-fi writer Robert Sawyer:

In public school (Kindergarten through Grade 6), I didn't really have many friends who were as bright as me, and that was emotionally quite hard. In Junior High (Grades 7 through 9), I had one close friend who was quite bright, and we spent a lot of time together talking about space and science fiction. It wasn't until high school, though, that I really found a group of friends who were as intelligent as I was, and my high-school years were some of the best of my life.