Certain highly gifted individuals are not allowed to flourish and develop although they exist in environments which have the means to assist and stimulate their development.  There appear to exist gifted individuals in our midst whom we tend ignore systematically; gifted men and women who simply are “inconvenient.” In an effort to explain such social responses to gifted behaviors a socio-biological framework is proposed, as based on a taxonomy of social function. Empirical data from three different studies (N = 287, IQ ≥ 131, M = 34 years of age), all of which demonstrated the resistance that gifted individuals encounter in their daily lives, will be used to exemplify the socio-biological framework.