When I read this I was extremely surprised. Everything you just said relates to me. I am socially awkward, laugh at inappropriate times, LOVE astronomy and physics and just about any other thing that could interest someone, so I research it all the time. I think I have above average intelligence, and have been told it before, because I have vast amounts of knowledge on specific subjects (space) that people always think I'm weird for.... yet I am also very clumsy. I always drum with my fingers like I am playing the double-bass peddle on a drumkit in some death metal to try and get out all the energy I know i have, but don't know how to express.

I find it hard to trust people, share my feelings etc. I don't understand human emotions at all yet notice all the small things people do all the time - including things that they would hate for someone to realise. I also get along better with older people than my age group (they're all so immature and self-absorbed.) I also think that I could be the only real person on earth and that everyone else could either be a robot or a figment of my imagination, which would mean that you are just a subconscious representation of me allowing myself to see how I really am (even though I just explained that poorly) - Descartes, the philosopher, had some quite interesting theories about this, even though in the rest of his life he was a massive ****. Vivisectionist? Really!?

I also notice patterns wherever I go, whether they're social, to do with numbers or even graphical. And number-plates.... I thought I was the only one!!! Whenever i see a number plate I run it automatically through my head against my internal "database" of categories "definitely recognise" / "slightly recognise" and "new to me." I will try to make my own patterns with the letters and numbers by giving them meaning as well.

My educational psychologist thinks I'm a very nice, polite person but said almost the exact same thing about me as you mentioned; saying I could come across as "aloof and quite cold towards others" when really i do care about other people, just don't know how to show them this. She also believes I am on the aspergic spectrum but I have had no official diagnosis. -Though it feels good to know that there is someone out there so similar to me.

Good luck in life, my friend. You are not alone