Gifted adults often sense misalignment between their capabilities and life, hampered by internalized shame that frames power as dangerous and fosters incongruence.
Being a Gifted, High-IQ Person in a Non-Gifted Family
Being intellectually gifted in an unsupportive family causes enduring loneliness, self-suppression, humiliation, and the need to find intellectual peers and stop performing a false self.
Intellectually advanced viewers enjoy RHOC for narrative complexity, novelty, moral ambiguity, and dark satire that reward pattern recognition and cognitive engagement.
Humiliation trauma in gifted individuals registers somatically before conscious recognition and grows from childhood suppression and social punishment of natural responses.