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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5657607" data-attributes="member: 54877">I would've been a (more of a?) nerd, but for a few key gaps: 1. I don't really enjoy most science very much, and this extends to a lot of science fiction--whether hard-core or the softer stuff that glories in the patina of science. I'll read National Geographic and the like to stay a reasonably informed citizen, but I'm not hankering to understand the intricacies of DNA or anything like that. I am interested in math quite a bit, and went very close to a math major in college. People often think one goes with the other, but for me it split. 2. That split occurs in other areas along similar grounds. I read a lot of philosophy, even in high school, and did statistics for fun, but I had no interest on the mechanical or engineering side, theoretical or practical. 3. Our grade school and high school was small, no more than 800 kids K-12. You weren't allowed to be completely a nerd. Pull your nose out of that book and go run the two mile--the track team needs you. By the same token, no one could be completely a jock, either. The math team and the college bowl teams had football players on them. Our D&D group was one of the two cores of the impromptu flag-football that happened every Sunday afternoon in the fall. 4. Even if your natural inclination is towards nerdiness (and mine definitely is), if you grow up in a rural community where you do farm work and wood working and help build houses and so on--you'll eventually learn a lot (practically and socially) despite your inclinations. Maybe if I had been born to an indulgent family in a prosperous urban home, it would have been different. Can't say. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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