This is other side of the socialization pancake.
"Go to school to learn how to socialize with other children." That has some value if they're genuine peers, but if he's too much smarter than they are, that socialization will likely not turn out well for him.
So I spent many years believing that I am too weird and no one can understand me;
Similar feelings here.
And I had my own LessWrong moment. Or at least, an HPMOR moment. Seeing Harry as a kid fundamentally refuse to accept death as an inevitable part of the natural order, and otherwise always with a sense of boundless opportunities in the world brought me back to the attitudes I had as a kid. Of course death is just a problem to be solved. I knew that then. But over the years, I lost that feeling, even if I was part of groups like the Extropians list or LessWrong who predicted such things.
It is also useful to socialize with people who are different than you. They make the majority of the world, don't they? But at some point being only with that kind of people becomes exhausting. Finding people like you, that's like... finally finding a home. A place where you can stop pretending, where you can fit as you are.
Although my 8-year-old son likes his teacher, he is frequently bored at school. He attends a high quality suburban public school in the United States. He has a lot of traits in common with LessWrong readers, and we would like advice for what he can do to counter his boredom. Many of you must have found grade school more or less tedious. What were your coping strategies?