"Challenges? I haven't really had any," she says. "Everything has always come very easily to me. I suppose…well, if you count my education as part of my career, I guess that being set apart from my contemporaries has always been a challenge. Without meaning to sound arrogant, I am more intelligent than my contemporaries, and from the vast majority of the population in general. I mean intelligent from a purely academic, IQ-test-type perspective; I know that in terms of general common sense I'm no smarter than the next person. But yes, it can sometimes be a challenge to relate to others on any kind of social level." She thinks a few moments, then says, "It was tough to leave home and go study when I was so young. That was a challenge."
"And have you managed to overcome that challenge?" you ask.
"I'm getting there," she says. "I have a few friends here in Seattle, now. Work prevents me from seeing them very often. But yeah, I'm getting there."