I wonder how much of the difference between nerd and normie use of language just comes from whether you learned about people through speech or writing.
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In particular the sort of autistic precision nerds get very into (regardless of whether we're actually autistic) makes a lot of sense as a pattern of communication learned through communicating primarily in writing.
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Feels kinda parallel to the "Hard to distinguish which bits are neurodivergence and which bits are the trauma of being neurodivergent in neurotypical society" in some ways: If being different causes you to learn more of life from reading, you become yet more different.
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Strongly support this! This happens if you learned to read/write very early in your life because you see written stuff all the time around you and people don't necessarily have the patience to talk to you
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Yeah. Or if you grow up socially isolated and mostly talking to people on the internet.
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