I have a few thoughts on this, but first, all of the punkins shown are excellent. I’ve always liked em but never did but a few in the traditional cutout style. The shaving done nowadays is clean off the chart.
As for the way some minds work, or don’t work, compared to others has always caught my attention. Einstein was a terrible student, as he was referred to by his instructors. I say his instructors were under gunned and couldn’t understand the direction a superior mind worked. Now there are a lot of folks that have also been successful with minimal formal instruction or education. Like you said, because they don’t travel the common path they’re thought of as weird, out of place. Very true. Lots are loners because they find it hard to find company among the critical common man. More power to them to be able to walk alone in a crowd. And God Bless those who live outside the normal box and love to fish for they advance our beloved infatuation at a quantum level.