Have you been shut out of group work (at seminars etc.)?

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Have you been shut out of group work - mainly as an adult, at things like seminars, workshops, labs, and the like?
I can say it's happened to me at least once...basically, as soon as they detected there was something abnormal about me, I was "frozen out" - they didn't use directly hostile language like "No, you're a f****ng loser and a freak, we don't want you, nobody does" but was non-verbally said... just pretending that I wasn't there, very passive-aggressive, hoping that I'd "take the hint" I suppose...even though I had to participate in SOME group work (guess it wasn't "their problem").

Even though I've always had a gifted IQ and had brilliant suggestions and feedback, it was still hard to overcome certain prejudices - and I suppose having the high intellectual smarts but low emotional intelligence (and practical smarts in some ways) conjured up a certain undesirable archetype in their hive-mind.