   Geek-Dweeb-Dork-Nerd - which ones are you?
  This Venn diagram was recently posted on /Film:I have to admit I found it pretty amusing trying to position myself on the chart, but in the end I really had to go with the intersection of the Nerd/Dweeb/Geek sectors. Since I never considered myself a dweeb, but I'm less obsessed about stuff than I am socially inept, it seems I've been wrong all this time :D. I guess you learn something new about yourself every day...How would you position yourself on this diagram?   
  I guess I'm a nerd.- I look at myself as intelligent (enjoy reading popular mechanic & popular science, 3d worlds and many others)- social ineptitude : well, I'm introvert - that's who i am, better at it or accounting than marketing. i'm a loner to. again, that's who i am. okay at work, but on weekend, i prefer  to be alone. i mean, I event went to the movies alone (just like yesterdaty, watching how to train your dragon in 3D'. i mean, i just love being alone. i can do anything i want withouyt having to come to a agreement with other people. i mean, it i want to watch this, i can watch this - instead of agree to a majoirty. i want to eat here, i eat here. i want to do this then that, then it would be this then that. going with a of people, you always have to agree to majority. the problem, i don't like what majority like. maybe that's make me a loner. i mean, i don't enjoy football / soccer. how's that.- obsession? well, I'm obsees with one thing previously : demo scene. from 56b to full demo. to module to mp3. currenly i plan to collect everything "where the wild things are". don't know why. but it's the second film that completely change me in my life, right after "paper house".so i guess that make me a nerd. and i'm proud of it. al least i'm not an a$$hole.   ;  I am intelligence.   ;    I   Am   Extrarius!     ;  I like that chart. Logical placement of terms. Always annoyed me that people couldn't agree on what geek/nerd means. They're always saying "I think [geek/nerd] is [good/bad] so clearly everyone must agree with me, amirite?". But this is so nicely defined and reasonable. It's like my whole life compartmentalized in convenient diagram format.100% nerd, if you couldn't tell :)   ;Quote:Original post by FableFox- social ineptitude : well, I'm introvert - that's who i am, better at it or accounting than marketing. i'm a loner to. again, that's who i am. okay at work, but on weekend, i prefer  to be alone. i mean, I event went to the movies alone (just like yesterdaty, watching how to train your dragon in 3D'. i mean, i just love being alone. i can do anything i want withouyt having to come to a agreement with other people. i mean, it i want to watch this, i can watch this - instead of agree to a majoirty. i want to eat here, i eat here. i want to do this then that, then it would be this then that. going with a of people, you always have to agree to majority. the problem, i don't like what majority like. maybe that's make me a loner. i mean, i don't enjoy football / soccer. how's that.I would say that being an introvert doesn't necessarily mean that you're socially inept. Some introverts are better at socializing than some extroverts.   ;  And I always thought that intelligence + antisocial behaviour + obsession would ultimately amount to psychopathy...;  In moving from nerd to intelligence (but will probably fail to insanity half-way)   ;Quote:Original post by Yann LAnd I always thought that intelligence + antisocial behaviour + obsession would ultimately amount to psychopathy...Don't forget that the colloquial use of "antisocial" usually refers to being "asocial", whereas "antisocial" has a somewhat different definition when you're talking about psychopaths. I know plenty of asocial people and I'm pretty sure they aren't psychopaths. [smile]I'd say that I'm progressively moving (there's a redundant verb phrase!) from nerd to geek at the moment.   ;Quote:Original post by Oberon_CommandDon't forget that the colloquial use of "antisocial" usually refers to being "asocial", whereas "antisocial" has a somewhat different definition when you're talking about psychopaths. I know plenty of asocial people and I'm pretty sure they aren't psychopaths. [smile]Indeed, a lot of people fail to make the distinction and use a(nti)-social interchangeably.In a very rough and vague nutshell....asocial == avoiding social contact (e.g. never leaving your house, never talking to anyone)antisocial == not avoiding social contact outright, but behaving negatively around other people (e.g. going out drunk in public, shouting and swearing and throwing abuse at innocent passers-by)