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gunplagirl posted...

ForestLogic posted...

More importantly, why do so many nerds have lisps and speech problems?

Among other things, it could be linked to some brain wiring stuff for how we learn. I had a speech impediment as a child and my biggest issue was r sounds. Weird in hindsight but I also was reading middle school material by the time I was finishing first grade so. :/ Who knows, maybe the fact I was not socializing as much was why I didn't get exposed to how r sounds are pronounced enough to naturally pick up on it.There's also that brief period as an infant where I was deaf for a few weeks or months and afterwards I became extremely picky.

But then there's tons of other nerds I've met who had speech impediments as kids too.

Most outgrow them. But then I have met more than a few who still have them. Lots of wa wu wo noises on sounds that shouldn't have them.

I think that nerds generally have a poor sense of visual and auditory subtlety. It's why their taste in media is usually, by conventional standards, terrible; why it's more common for nerds to put the emphasis on the "incorrect" syllables; why, even when they try to look fashionable, they don't pull it off because they miss some subtlety and end up just looking strange.

None of this is meant to be negative. It's great that people are truly diverse (as opposed to the superficial definition of diverse, i.e. skin colour).