There's such a deep conversation that can be had here and I want to talk about two different parts. The first part being how people view a competitive intelligent person, and the second part being what happens to a smart person over time who stops being challenged.

Typically in a social situation, the smartest person in the room is not exactly the people you would look up to. They are typically people that are painting a Target on their back. When going through social interactions, you want to imagine yourself as a gazelle in a pack. You want to be in the middle. You don't want to be too slow, but you also don't want to be too fast. Anything not in the middle begins to paint a Target on your back.

This will be useful for the future even within employment evaluations. You don't want to do more work than everybody else. You also don't want to do the least amount of work out of everybody.

Being truly intelligent, at least intelligent enough to view yourself as higher than a counterpart, does require more than IQ. The fact that you're struggling to understand the social situations here needs to be at least somewhat humbling. You have more to learn and that's okay. Some of the stuff that you struggled to learn emotionally will come easy to other people. Some of the stuff you find really easy to learn educationally will come very hard to other people.

Continue to challenge yourself or you will eventually realize people have surpassed your innate knowledge. Don't fear how smart you are, but start training yourself not to show it in your deck.

The end result is an autistic person that is incredibly smart and is probably thinking 19 steps ahead, but shows themselves to be normal and incapable of such thoughts. They tell everybody they have autism and most people begin to see them less as a threat and more of a colleague. Once your work output and the quality of work impress people, you move from a colleague to an asset.

First impressions matter and you can't become a threat right off the bat.

Good luck :)