one of my longstanding interests i don't really talk about because it's very rude is "nerd theory," in the sense of having a theory of nerds: why do nerds have that voice? why don't nerds like sports? why do nerds have bad posture? why do nerds *look younger*?
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anyway i have a rough draft of a theory now, the one-sentence summary is not that complicated it turns out:
a nerd is a person who is tense all the time
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there are people who are tense all the time who are not nerds
I might rather say that nerds are intellectuals who are tense all the time
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yeah a few minutes later i was like "wait hmm a veteran with PTSD is tense all the time but not (necessarily) a nerd"
the cluster i'm interested in might be more "a person who was tense all the time growing up esp. during puberty"?
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Still think those people are not all nerds
Nerdness involves contraction of the body, granted, but it involves expansion elsewhere
The relationship between those pressures is important. It's not *just* a cope, but a pressure model of investments
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hmmmmmmhmhmhm yeah i like this
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