21/m here, I feel much the same. I look at news, I look around me - and all I see is superficial dunces who look like they can't even fathom thinking about 5 years from now, or beyond their own little bubble. No one is interested of talking about science, physics, ideas. It's all about what happened yesterday, or how Becky's getting new clothes, or how they got a high K/D in the latest COD, or other pointless things. But they don't /think/. They don't imagine.

Hell - I feel (and act) so different than people in my surroundings that I had (and still have) a reputation for seeming like I'm always high on something, despite me never even touching any drug - I get fascinated by things right under our noses, like cars (thinking about how they work), the human body, the sky (and the depths of space behind it along with all the stars there). I get off tangents because I keep thinking about things (think of it like an IRL wikipedia link game, in my head). I don't pay attention because while they're blabbering about how they're "so going to stuff their faces with pizza pockets this weekend", I'm thinking and creating fictional universes, machine designs (that I put down later should I ever get the means to produce them), mechanism designs (also put down later), game mechanics for the day I have enough me-time to get started on it, and so on.

Everyone wants to talk people and events (but not dramatic events like war or new technologies or officials scandals - no, more like how they're doing that festival this summer or how X and Y street is getting torn up for construction again).

It seriously sucks.