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The word nerd doesn't mean nowadays what it meant 20 or 30 yrs ago. It's been appropriated by business sorts as a label so they can pass themselves off as creat
by vorg 13y ago
The word nerd doesn't mean nowadays what it meant 20 or 30 yrs ago. It's been appropriated by business sorts as a label so they can pass themselves off as creators of genuine stuff as part of their sales routine. Look at most of the nerds nowadays and ask if these people are really "persons of above average intelligence who don't care about their appearance"? Real nerds tend to use the aspie label nowadays.
- avrilkiki 13y agoThe nerds on TBBT really are real nerds. All of them. They are different flavors of nerd. Sheldon is the aspie pervert creep. Raj and Howard are creepy manchildren. Leonard is the low self-esteem self-conscious self-hating type.
- judk 13y agoPervert? You may be projecting your nerd hate a bit. Howard is the only pervert.
- nhebb 13y agoThe Portlandia Nerd PSA hits on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3v5yDk9Ws http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir3v5yDk9Ws
- vorg 13y agoDidn't know about this show. Like the line "I'm a real nerd. I actually use these glasses to see!"
- insertnickname 13y ago>Real nerds tend to use the aspie label nowadays. What...? That's idiotic... You don't have autism just because you're a "nerd".
- vorg 13y agoAspie is short for Asperger's, which is only a very mild form of autism, not that people calling themselves aspies necessarily have Asperger's syndrone, though some do. Many aspies have appropriated the term, however, because they know the business sorts calling themselves nerds will be repulsed by the term, and won't want to steal it from real aspies anytime soon.
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- insertnickname 13y agoCalling it a "mild form of autism" is not really accurate.