The reason a middle school or high school student feels awkward, disconnected and asocial may not be that he/she has anything at all wrong with them. In fact, the problem may just be that middle school and high school are horrible places which encourage human beings' worst tendencies and stifle any opportunities for positive interaction and self-actualization.

I hear this a lot from the Less Wrong and SingInst crowd, but I'd like to say that I thought high school was awesome despite also being incredibly painful at points (to the extent that I dropped out during my senior year).