Why do cool kids dislike nerds and introverted people?

dball75
Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:41:48 +0000

Nerds or geeks are generally disliked by “cool kids” or even by society because the nerd by nature has less of a connection or empathy/compassion with people. This is why they are really into video games/technology. They are more entertained by the machine than they are with people. They do not feel and can’t identify with what other people are feeling, they do not feel others pain.

This also relates to what makes people “cool”. In general the “cool” kids are the nicest and the ones who feel most connected to others. Now this is just a generality and can be refuted by numerous examples I know, but in general terms these observations are absolutely correct.

I will share one example of how I came to this conclusion… in high school I was friends with the popular kids and never really had much interaction with the nerds until I took a pre calculus class my senior year. We had these graphing calculators that you could program and one day this “nerd” asked if he could transfer a really neat program to my calculator. Once he did I learned it was a trick that completely locked out my machine and required me to hit a certain button 200 times in a row to get my calculator to come back on. I was not happy, did not think it was funny and made my opinion known, but he did not care. He had zero remorse and did not feel anything about the fact that I was upset, he just laughed about it with his freinds.

At that point I knew that is what made me and my friends different from him and his friends. At the very least if one of my friends did something similar they would at least say sorry and have some sort of reaction to me being upset.