Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I know everyone thinks highschool doesn’t really matter friendship wise, but a lot of the time I feel uncomfortable with my friends. I’m interested in medieval art, classic literature, and contemporary art while they know nothing about anything on those particular subjects and certainly would never accompany me to an art exhibition or look at my art pieces and give me honest, profound feedback instead of just saying, “oh how nice!” and veer off topic to gossip. We have nothing in common and a lot of the time this upsets me because I’m like a foreign person to them. They misinterpret me on a daily basis and get impatient when I try and talk about art or literature. Most of them don’t even read for leisure purposes. I feel like I’m a different species because they don’t understand me at all and don’t try to…
Is that totally normal? I’m I just being picky and weird? I know there are actually people in my school who share interests with me but I don’t really approach me because none of my friends are affiliated with them and they’re part of a whole different group…