Somehow these multiple tendencies toward isolation reinforce one another to the point where the majority of gifted children feel lonely, left-out, or different. This combination of unique perception and its concurrent isolation yield an emotional vacuum. Often parents attempt to redress the child's isolation by providing more adult attention. Excessive adult attention increases the problem. Inadequate adult attention increases the problem too.
Isolation is also an advantage for many children.
It may be also that since their intellectual capacities are so strong, they have less need to develop their emotional intelligences. In any case, a major pitfall for some gifted children is a lower level of empathy and an inaccurate perception of their communications with others. One finding was that, almost unanimously, they reported that their social-emotional development was shortchanged. Intellectual capability can not replace emotional capability. No matter how brilliant, humans are still social creatures who absolutely require connections to other people.