I can't talk about this without sounding like an egocentric arsehole, but...

recently it feels a lot more like the distance has increased between me and other people; I can barely follow their trains of thought (or often even DETECT a cohesive thought process behind the words); the things they say seem contradictory, or just completely devoid of substance
people speak in bizarre vagaries and tautologies—then seem to get angry, frustrated, or even suddenly attempt to condescend to ME when I point this out whilst asking for clarification
it also feels like I'm having to go off on meandering tangents all the time explaining the most basic of concepts, to even arrive at the actual point I'm making, leaving me wondering if the nuance of what it is I actually intended to say is even registering with them
and this is even when talking to highly-educated people

many seem to be so reliant upon their internal toy mental models of the world, rather than reasoning... or even sensory data, that they just outright make things up, believing feeling and impulse alone to be truth
I'm unable to shake the feeling that the people around me really aren't very intelligent (which is not to say that I view myself as highly intelligent—only that they're dumb)

I've been wondering if I'm... becoming more autistic over time
or if instead, my increasing bouts of self-imposed isolation have caused me to further divert course from some zeitgeist of collective psyche, and I'm simply experiencing a form of 'cognitive drift'
or perhaps the vaccine is slowly making these fucking retards yet more tarded, as the autoimmunity eats away at their prefrontal cortices—I'm seeing a lot more ambulances out on the road, despite living somewhere so sleepy

it just feels like I'm on a weird wavelength compared to everybody else in my life right now
I can't decide if they're all freaks, or if it's me—I do appreciate the likelihood that it is indeed me

but it's starting to get a little lonely