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One aspect of the isolation is the construction of concepts, structures thereof and whole private languages that are tuned and specialized to the mind and interests highly gifted. Now private languages don't really exist but that doesn't mean that they don't hinder interaction with other people - esp. the exchange of ideas interesting to them.
Languages are implemented in individual brains and so private languages are perfectly conceptually possible, Wittgenstein notwithstanding.
That was meant humorously. Obviously such things exist. But one could argue that these do not match some strict definitions of what a language is.
Sorry about that, then. I've just heard too many philosophers say such things non-humorously.