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Feb. 1st, 2008 08:19 pmFrom a site I was browsing:
"There's a pretty well-known joking-but-not-really theory out there that says normal people apply tact to everything they say. Nerds, as the theory goes, are the opposite. They're naturally more abrasive around each other, but don't take any of it personally because they apply tact to everything they hear. Two regular people or two nerds can communicate with each other just fine. But if you put a normal person and nerd together it breaks down. The nerd gets exasperated with the normal person for tiptoeing around what they want to say, and the regular person gets offended by the nerd's curt, direct manner of communicating."
This really struck me as being true. I get more frustrated the more 'social' someone acts around me because I can tell that they're not saying what they mean and it feels unfair that I'm supposed to guess at what they're trying to say. And I know people are taken aback at how blunt I am.
"There's a pretty well-known joking-but-not-really theory out there that says normal people apply tact to everything they say. Nerds, as the theory goes, are the opposite. They're naturally more abrasive around each other, but don't take any of it personally because they apply tact to everything they hear. Two regular people or two nerds can communicate with each other just fine. But if you put a normal person and nerd together it breaks down. The nerd gets exasperated with the normal person for tiptoeing around what they want to say, and the regular person gets offended by the nerd's curt, direct manner of communicating."
This really struck me as being true. I get more frustrated the more 'social' someone acts around me because I can tell that they're not saying what they mean and it feels unfair that I'm supposed to guess at what they're trying to say. And I know people are taken aback at how blunt I am.
