By speaking the way that you are about people not acknowledging or teaching ESP, and having prejudice against it, you are reinforcing your own beliefs that such is the case, thus actually strengthening the thing which you dislike. It would be better, in general, to look at things in a positive way, instead. "How do we make things like this more readily acceptable to others?" rather than "Why do they reject us?"
Personally, I've had a few experiences that I do not know how to explain. Whether or not this was paranormal or not is all in the eyes of the beholder (or in this case, possibly the ear of the listener), and has something to do with their inclination and level of knowledge in the area. In case anyone is curious, the most consistent one (which I no longer seem to have the ability to do) was knowing that someone was calling, and who it was, before the phone rang. That is, I could tell that, say, my grandma was calling, and could say so, and THEN the phone would ring for the first time.
All that being said, I would love for people to be more accepting of unusual, hard to explain scientifically, things. If anyone has any good ideas on how to further this goal, let me know. Although I don't have much influence at the moment, that won't necessarily always be the case, and I am willing to put some of the energy at my disposal into such a goal.
Also, if anyone has specifics on how to regain or expand the abilities I used to have (I also had deja vu a lot, in regards to knowing what people, including myself were going to say... I'd often mouth the words along with them), I would be interested in knowing more... preferrably not involving buying a book or video (if it's available on a web site or via the library, that's more my style).
By the way, in case anyone is curious to know more of what I think about this and other such things, I have a
self development blog of my own (though few readers so far).