He didn't care for the social niceties and peer relationships that dominated social conduct in school and every other setting in his life. If it were up to him he'd gladly go through school unnoticed and left alone. But it's hard to remain obscure when you surpass others. School is boring. It's always been easy. He hated it when teachers would say
"Come on it's not hard" as if that were an incentive in and of itself that should prompt him to start his work. But that's the problem; it's not hard.
He desperately wanted to be challenged, to be pushed. There was no need to ever study and he put forth little effort in his assignments which caused great resentment when he scored the highest on every test while the people who actually tried their hardest felt betrayed because they have little to show for their efforts. It's easy to envy and resent the person who seems to have no great difficulties or problems.
But I do have problems, I can't relate to anyone my own age and no adult cares about what some little kid has to say. Kids just talk about things that are so trivial and irrelevant and they don't very much care for what comes out of my mouth. Grades never really interested him. They seemed so pointless. As long as he knew that he knew the material he was content. He didn't need anybody to praise or chastise his ability to do something simple. When he was praised he often felt patronized. It was like they were all saying "Good job 1+1 is 2"
I can still fix this, I just need to reassure their egos by coming off as humble. No not humble... they'd still resent that. Lucky. Stupid and lucky.
