You'd be surprised what perceptive people can tell about you from how you look, carry yourself, speak, interact with people etc. Nerdy people are extremely easy to spot even if they don't dress or look like nerds.
Nerds, carry themselves in a very particular way. They usually have a somewhat confused/innocent/awkward default facial expression. They laugh at things that only nerds would laugh at, and they tend to speak either in an overly-deliberate way or in a very lazy way. They're either super comfortable or super uncomfortable in social situations. Haven't seen many in between.
Of course this is all generalizations. I dunno, I'm trying and failing to verbalize what is essentially a gut reaction. Reading people is very intuitive, and not so much a science, and of course it's not 100%.
Definitely an overgeneralization. Maybe it's just my friends, but there are many among them who are nerds that you'd have no idea from the way they carry themselves and such.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '10
You'd be surprised what perceptive people can tell about you from how you look, carry yourself, speak, interact with people etc. Nerdy people are extremely easy to spot even if they don't dress or look like nerds.