I've been asked recently if I knew about Occam's razor. I failed at providing a coherent answer. I like how Sigourney Weaver's character in the movie RedLights insinuates the principle. Were I able to cite her then, I would have said what she said (about horses or unicorns).
About getting called a "deep thinker", that's not something I hear from others. But then, I generally do not communicate what I may ponder upon when I feel, no, when I just think about those things.
There's a whole gamut, from the able, but lazy, and the willing but incapable. Just like autism is a spectrum, intellectual giftedness (or more generally, the tendency to seek intellectually satisfying activities (like thinking about something more abstract than whether if Kim Kardashian is pregnant or not)) is somewhere on a spectrum that also include those who get excited about pop culture (for lack of thinking about a wordplay involving plums and pruning).
I am sure that there's a lot of people who would feel frustrated, if not helpless, if they had to think about things in such a way as to enunciate novel characteristics that were previously unaccounted for. Mathematics is the art of thinking. Not everyone can be a mathematician. I am not a mathematician, but I don't feel intimidated when I see formulas. A lot of people are feeling intimidated (to not say afraid) when confronted with some ideas they can't understand. Probably because, as they need their world to be predictable so they feel secure, the perceived insecurity from what they can't even begin to manipulate, effect, if not overt hostility, at least an acknowledgment that they are powerless, by complimenting the person, for example.
If you can't beat them, join them (but only metaphorically
).