<p>I agree with WoW. Nerds don't have the most fun. Speaking as a nerd myself, I can tell you that I am very miserable, and I can tell that the other nerds in my school bottle up their anger and frustration. Often Nerds can be "Nice Guys", guys that are always just friends with girls. Being a Nice Guy is a defense mechanism to their nerdiness; they are just trying to please. But in this world we live in, you have to be a jerk-off to gain respect and attraction.</p>
<p>Most of the nerds I've met at college have been mean. Must be all that high school stuff bottled up. Seriously I try to be nice and then they don't even know how to treat someone. Just be friendly. The people worth talking to will be nice back. The elitists will always be pretty and popular until they lose their looks (which can take longer than you think). I think the worst part is that nerds just lump everyone else socially above them together. Just try to be pleasant and not just always into your own little world. It's okay to have nerdy interests (I love chemistry and Mystery Science Theater 3000 but am I nerdy? After arriving at college and meeting real nerds, NO.) but when they inhibit your ability to relate to other people maybe you should let your guard down a little or try and learn a little about what non-nerds do so it isn't as awkward everytime you try to converse with someone not in your own little nerd clique.</p>
<p>Maybe you are a Nice Guy (I do meet nice nerds) but you cannot relate to people or you are annoying in a way you cannot help. I know some guy, nice nerdy guy, but I can't stand being by him for very long because his voice is really whiny. It is just awful. Others make bad jokes. Others smell bad. I'm not saying you do any of those things but those are reasons I might not talk to a nerd who is actually nice as much.</p>
<p>Quick Rant: Just so you guys see where I'm coming from: I don't like nerds. Not because they're nerds. It's usually just because they think they're better. More intelligent. Just because they look the part. I have been put-down plenty of times by nerds who didn't think I was smart enough to be in their classes. Yeah I do goofy things but we aren't all the same and I did have ADHD (I have toned things down a lot!) but that doesn't mean that I'm not worth listening to or I don't get anything. It is possible that I understood something before a nerd so why don't they believe me? I don't think you realize the effect you can have on others. Making someone feel unpopular? Big deal. That can happen anywhere, anytime, to anyone and it's not permanent. Making someone feel dumb? That lasts and takes an effect. I don't like being called stupid when I'm not. Not even close.</p>
<p>So maybe if your a nerd and you read this, think about how you treat people. Do you always announce your test scores or desperately ask others what they got just to be satisfied with yourself and to tell them you did better? Do you audibly say whatever you're learning in class is easy? Do you called others stupid, on a regular basis? Do you make fun of other if they need directions to set up a computer or take notes in an "easy" class? Do you ask others if they've done learned/read something just to prove they didn't and your smarter? Do you think you're the only one right because you're obviously the smartest? Always? No exceptions?</p>
<p>Things are things that can bug others more than you think. Especially the easy one. Yeah so what it's easy . . . for you but for others it may take a while. Maybe they're smarter than you in a different way. I don't just mean academically. (There are more things to life than academics, b/c just like the sportos, there may come a time when you don't know everything and you're not the smartest, not the best anymore. Don't get discouraged when it happens either.) It could be socially, cognitively, emotionally. There are many kinds of intelligence. And just because you have one kind doesn't mean you're set. You still need to gain maturity (a desperate need for most nerds who act like they're 10 yrs old), a sense of reality, ability to interact with others. The world doesn't completely rely on facts and equations, but people and ideas.</p>
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So maybe if your a nerd and you read this, think about how you treat people. Do you always announce your test scores or desperately ask others what they got just to be satisfied with yourself and to tell them you did better? Do you audibly say whatever you're learning in class is easy? Do you called others stupid, on a regular basis? Do you make fun of other if they need directions to set up a computer or take notes in an "easy" class? Do you ask others if they've done learned/read something just to prove they didn't and your smarter? Do you think you're the only one right because you're obviously the smartest? Always? No exceptions?
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Nah. That's called a snob. There are probably nerd snobs too, but not all of them are.</p>
<p>i guess the nerd snobbery is just the compensation for our stigma as being smart. in my opinion, nerds should be more arrogant. Besides, all those dumb people don't care if they're dumb; they actually like it. For them, being dumb means they are not a nerd.</p>
<p>No see that's what I mean. Nerds just assume everyone is beneath them. I have been called dumb plenty of times. I'm not. I'm usually smarter. Just because I don't act it and don't look it doesn't mean I'm not. I get the least respect from nerds. Out of any social group I'd have to say they are the meanest. From who I've come across that is just my position. There is more to life than being smart. And being smart in more than one way.</p>
<p>^ yeah i hate people that think they are better than you becaus they think they are smarter.
I've often come across people that are smart-with-no-social-skills and some of them are just plain weird. Like, when I ask them questions about some schoolwork, they get very frustrated and answer curtly. Them: "oh no i just wasted 10sec of my precious lonely boring life, talking to this girl that I assume is dumb"
That is when I get ticked off and I study my ass off to score a bit more than them in a test. And then they get all angus. And then I laugh. muwhahahahaha</p>