Husband with IQ of 158

I don't know what to expect here. My husband is autistic, he was diagnosed in his early 20's before we met. He is now 35, he is a secondary school maths teacher.

I would like to find other people who have had similar experiences to him if possible. The difficulty he has is that he finds extremely complex maths and science (up to and including PHD level) easy but has no one to discuss these things with, as people we know and people he works with don't understand things on the same level as him.

He doesn't really have any of his own friends, but will tolerate some of mine sometimes. Generally he finds other people boring. But he also sometimes expresses feeling lonely or isolated. He finds social situations very stressful, and will avoid them where possible. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

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    I'm not sure your stuff is sufficiently "reform" enough - I'd have to check with Jo Boaler - are you sure these are low floor high ceiling? :-D.  Me though, I'm more a child of the "New Math".  My O-level and A-level were SMP.  It turns out a lot of that "abstract" stuff that all the parents really hated because they hadn't done it at school, couldn't understand and thus couldn't help their children cheat^wwith their homework and coursework is really useful for things like Computer Science :-D.