Why are intelligent and deep people always depressed?

[Answered on Quora.com by Marsho Atkins]

I am answering this as a very highly intelligent autistic male:

Because we see things 100 layers deeper than everyone else in complexity, we notice things people are oblivious to, we see solutions no one does - the best word I love to use is we see PATTERNS everywhere.

Now you might ask why does any of this necessarily have to cause depression or sadness in a person? The answer is two things:

1. First, we see how fake and superficial most things society preaches are, we see how everyone essentially acts in self-interest and we get pretty cynical about life, we just don't buy bullshit even if in heart we truly wish we did - this would be freeing for us.

2. Now the bigger problem is, we find it very hard to get our points across, we find how in losing position we are should we ever raise our concerns and, even more, solutions to them. We know better than anyone else how masses work and how most people are nothing but sheep (I love to call them sheeple) who can be very easily influenced and led to anything blindly, ignorantly. We know that we are gonna be ridiculed, mocked and disregarded by people who are clearly ten seas below us in some subject/topic we discuss. We know we have to dumb down ourselves all the times if we even want to win something in society, we have to constantly justify and explain in primitive words our different and unique actions and mindset and even then we know most times no one will understand us anyway. Laugh, ridicule, name-calling, disregard, labeling - this is what we have seen our entire lives so we shut ourselves up and live our lives lonely, seeing just how much potential we have to make this world better place and how we are outnumbered and outpowered - then we blame ourselves for this because - in our minds "since we are this much above everyone else in intelligence we are somehow responsible for even finding the ways to enlighten people. No, lol, this isn't gonna happen.