When no one cares about your special interest...

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lol, you sound like a mini me.
Things don't really change, people don't stop telling you you're smart or whatever. I learned to just say "thanks" and leave it at that; it's apparently insulting to that person to say "Oh, I'm not really that smart" or something.
Even though everything I do can be done by anyone, if they actually wanted to do it.
I always remember the quote from Einstein; "I possess no special talents, I am only infinitely curious"
Many eastern philosophies also push the idea that genius and insight come from allowing the mind to be curious like that of a child's.

And unfortunately, to most people, you will seem crazy

It's insulting? Gee, I find out now?!?



I know exactly what you mean; I've tried multiple times to convince people that if they actually wanted to learn the stuff I know, they could, but it's never, ever worked. Apparently motivation and ability are one and the same. Anyways if I tried quoting Einstein or various eastern philosophers in my defense, it would probably serve to convince them more to the contrary of my argument XD.

Thanks so much for all the advice and stuff. I really appreciate it. And thank you, Turing, for giving us the computer, and thanks to all those other people who helped bring us modern communications technology!

physicsforums.com. If you go there talking about string theory, though, they will roll their eyes.

Not surprising. I'm halfway to doing that myself, but in my opinion if it's not right (which it may very well be) it'll end up being like alchemy--sure it was wrong, but it led us to many great insights (in mathematics, and maybe particle colliders, in this case) that we would not have come upon otherwise.

My best bit of advice for any specialist forum is, sign up, then spend about a month using the search function to read as many threads as possible. That gives you the ability to figure out who some of the main personalities are, and how they act, and also lets you read any big important threads that have already been covered, perhaps multiple times.

And then once you've done that, then you can post in the introduction form and start posting.