Why are you a nerd?
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Because I was always a more sciencey kid who was interested in learning things. While other kids were outside playing, I'd be at home reading, watching documentaries on history or nature, or just letting my imagination run wild with me.
I love people, and I'm very much a social person, even if I had a crap time in high school, but I guess being an only child kind of meant I had to be very good at entertaining myself. I didn't have a brother or sister to play with at home, so that meant, if I was bored, I probably wouldn't go running outside, since there was no one else to play with, but instead I'd do more nerdy solitary activities, like making a death machine out of Lego, or reading, or playing video games.
I love people, and I'm very much a social person, even if I had a crap time in high school, but I guess being an only child kind of meant I had to be very good at entertaining myself. I didn't have a brother or sister to play with at home, so that meant, if I was bored, I probably wouldn't go running outside, since there was no one else to play with, but instead I'd do more nerdy solitary activities, like making a death machine out of Lego, or reading, or playing video games.
I've never been athletic. I'd rather be intellectual than be ignorant. I don't possess and uncontrollable desire to drink or have sex. I enjoy video games. I wear glasses. I have a tendency to over-analyze things. I'm majoring in Computer Science. I'd say that defines me as a nerd. What I don't understand is why being called a nerd is supposed to insult me. I like myself.
Couldn't telly you really. I'm not really a "Nerd", in the standard sense, or at least nobody's ever had the balls and/or bad manners to call me a nerd to my face.
I pursue gaming for the same reason I pursue films, music and literature, I eat, breathe and sleep art, it's one of the fundamentals of who I am.
I spend a great deal of my time on it because I love it, but also because the physical hobbies I enjoy, such as sword fighting, hand to hand sparring, require two people, and I have no willing opponents. That's not to say I don't practice on my own.
I pursue gaming for the same reason I pursue films, music and literature, I eat, breathe and sleep art, it's one of the fundamentals of who I am.
I spend a great deal of my time on it because I love it, but also because the physical hobbies I enjoy, such as sword fighting, hand to hand sparring, require two people, and I have no willing opponents. That's not to say I don't practice on my own.
I have almost every possible biological disadvantage that prevents me playing sports and don't like them anyway. And I like sci-fi and don't like reality.
Asperger's, limited vision, asthma and an interest for fantasy and SF. That and both of my parents being omega nerds.
I could just say I'm a hipster and being into sports is so mainstream. I don't know why I'm a nerd, but I would say being the nerd let's me express myself while being comfortable. Although I am classified as a nerd under the nerd stereotypes. I play games, excel at academics, terrible at sports, in the band, obsessed with technology, and I have been known to speak fluent Nerd.
Also I'm an Otaku, that's a super nerd where I am. So huzzah! For being different.
Also I'm an Otaku, that's a super nerd where I am. So huzzah! For being different.
Huh. I guess, now that I'm thinking about it, "nerdy" hobbies always provided me with the mental stimulation that other stuff couldn't. I've always loved literature, and gaming (especially anything story or character-driven), as well as drawing/art. I remember when I was a little girl, I used to read nearly all the time, and if I wasn't doing that, then I was playing the original Marios or Sonics on my parents' old SNES and Megadrive, or Pokemon Red on that brick of a Gameboy. I sketched and painted a lot of random crap, too.
Nothing much has changed, but my interests branched out into history and psychology -- and don't forget utter over-analysis! -- as I grew older, so there are more "mental"-type interests. Sports, or anything "mind fluff" (not that sports is) has never really interested me. I'm not an outdoorsy or athletic person anyway, and I don't like just plonking my ass down and staring blankly at a TV screen for three hours. I just find it boring, because there's nothing to really think about. Which I mean in the least elitist way possible, by the way, if that was misconstrued as arrogant or anything.
So...I guess that's why I'm a nerd? I like nerdy hobbies because they're more fun and clevererer? B-)
Nothing much has changed, but my interests branched out into history and psychology -- and don't forget utter over-analysis! -- as I grew older, so there are more "mental"-type interests. Sports, or anything "mind fluff" (not that sports is) has never really interested me. I'm not an outdoorsy or athletic person anyway, and I don't like just plonking my ass down and staring blankly at a TV screen for three hours. I just find it boring, because there's nothing to really think about. Which I mean in the least elitist way possible, by the way, if that was misconstrued as arrogant or anything.
So...I guess that's why I'm a nerd? I like nerdy hobbies because they're more fun and clevererer? B-)
I was a gamer before it was cool to game.
I was a nerd before it was cool to nerd it up.
I was a geek before it was sexy to geek out.
As I post this, I am wearing a Metroid hat, a Firefly shirt, and a Dragon Age Pendant.
I'm a "nerd," as you say, because I developed and grew that way, because I am so deep in the "Nerd Culture," I can't back out now. I am here to stay.
I was a nerd before it was cool to nerd it up.
I was a geek before it was sexy to geek out.
As I post this, I am wearing a Metroid hat, a Firefly shirt, and a Dragon Age Pendant.
I'm a "nerd," as you say, because I developed and grew that way, because I am so deep in the "Nerd Culture," I can't back out now. I am here to stay.
Why am I a nerd? Hmm, now there's a question. I suppose I'm a nerd for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I don't end up being a fucking waffle waitress (if anyone knows who I just ripped off, then a winrar is u).
In all seriousness, I'm a nerd because nerds are smarter, nicer, and more useful than the "cool" people. They also end up essentially owning the asses of the cool people. All that, and because I just identify with them, I enjoy the culture, etc etc.
In all seriousness, I'm a nerd because nerds are smarter, nicer, and more useful than the "cool" people. They also end up essentially owning the asses of the cool people. All that, and because I just identify with them, I enjoy the culture, etc etc.
because of my asthma. some people use that as an excuse their whole lives, but before my minor attack when i was 10 which got me diagnosed i was on my school football team, basketball team and i ran cross-country. i was crap at football, but that was more because of me not liking pain/mud. i was a beast at basketball, still can be if probability gives me a break: i shocked an entire class by scoring a 3-pointer over all their heads after doing fuck-all. then i went nerdy when i ended up getting a place on a smart-ass quiz thing. actually, the entire quiz team were all on the football and basketball teams.
then i started studying science because i suck at physical activities.
then i started studying science because i suck at physical activities.
I hate what peoples standard is to be considered cool by a majority of people. Then I am givin the title of nerd.(they're no the smartest people I've seen)
