say that some of the stereotypes in the OP are largely mistaken.

There are certainly home schooled kids who are dumb as rocks (usually because parents don't do jack to help their kids); but that's just as prevalent among public or private school kids. The bottom line difference maker there is parental involvement - be it home schooling or public schooling. If parents are involved, the kids will be fine academically. If not, then just going to school for 6-7 hours a day won't make that much of a difference.

There historically probably was more awkwardness among homeschooled kids. But increasingly I see the gap between honeschooled and public/private schooled kids in that regard becoming almost unrecognizable. Instead, awkwardness is a result of - homeschooled or not - spending an inordinate amount of time on a stupid device. THAT is the awkward/dumbing-down variable. Kids who are always on devices can't carry on conversations, don't recognize social cues, make eye contact, have relatively few developed skills or interests, etc and are the socially awkward ones.

Of course there are always exceptions. But on the whole, my experience is that awkwardness and academic remediation are directly a reflection of device use and parental involvement and have relatively little to do with where the schooling comes from.

FTR, my kids all go to public school.