{"id":5514,"date":"2024-12-22T01:25:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T01:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/22\/the-nerd-as-the-norm-everything-studies\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T01:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T01:25:05","slug":"the-nerd-as-the-norm-everything-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/22\/the-nerd-as-the-norm-everything-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nerd as the Norm \u2013 Everything Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What would it look like if we saw the other side of the nerdiness bell curve as the weird one? Really terrific essay that may be very useful both to nerds and to the people who love them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In our hypothetical \u201cnerds are the norm\u201d bizarro-world we\u2019d have the opposite distortion. We get that by breaking wambs out from the central blob, extending the axis to the left side, and then fuse nerds with the center so our new idea of normality includes nerds and excludes wambs. There\u2019d be an \u201callism spectrum\u201d, named after something I found when googling \u201copposite of autism\u201d, with wambs at its mild end and some formal diagnosis on the severe end<a href=\"https:\/\/everythingstudies.com\/2017\/11\/07\/the-nerd-as-the-norm\/#fn3\">[3]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that world, \u201cField Guide to the Wamb\u201d would describe wambs as weirdos with strange interests and personalities. Their weaknesses would be considered major flaws and their strengths maybe useful for some things but not essential to be a well-rounded human.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/everythingstudies.com\/2017\/11\/07\/the-nerd-as-the-norm\/\">https:\/\/everythingstudies.com\/2017\/11\/07\/the-nerd-as-the-norm\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would it look like if we saw the other side of the nerdiness bell curve as the weird one? Really terrific essay that may be very useful both to nerds and to the people who love them. In our hypothetical \u201cnerds are the norm\u201d bizarro-world we\u2019d have the opposite distortion. We get that by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1qW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}