The Big Picture: Brainiacs: The Once & Future Nerds

[Lyvric]

I don't think it matters if you do or do not have a condition. What I think Bob is getting at is that the stereo-types and images associated with the term Nerd could even go back to a miss-understanding/no-understanding of what those conditions are. Humans attach slangs terms and names to images, behaviours, and conditions they don't understand all the time.

Medically we have made huge advancements since the stereo-typical, uncomfortable around others image was made of the Nerd or Geek. With Spiderman, I feel he's kind of showing an example how we're steering away from that assumption/ignorance. These terms are now more for whatever you want them to mean for yourself then they've ever been before regardless of what you have.

 

[Korten12]

Really Bob? It's been more than a year now. The horse is dead. How about you stop taking every dig you can at The Amazing Spider-Man already? Do you honestly have nothing better to do than to carry out some strange vendetta against a movie you didn't like?

Thank god someone finally noticed... It's REALLY fucking annoying. I can understand that he doesn't like it, but he tries to make it seem like it was a movie considered bad by all when actually it was generally well recieved. 73% on rotten tomatoes, respectable score.

However if you watched Bob's videos you would think that the general concensious was that it was bad.

 

[Strazdas]

Geek and Nerd are DIFFERENT THINGS. most people dont know what "nerd" is. Most people think of geeks when they say nerds.

And looks like BOB did learn a bit more about Nerds since his last video. im very glad about that. And yes indeed i also noticed the corelation between high functioning autists (myself included) and nerds, though no causation. at least not yet.

Then again you used steve jobs as a nerd example, when if we were to use stereotypes, jobs would be the jock way before nerd, so maybe you still dont understand what a nerd is.
For those who really want to know what Nerd is, this guy explains it better than i do:

Com'on people! say it with me! NERD AND PROUD!

You should never be proud to be a nerd. Thats like saying you should be proud to be a rape victim.

 

[Triaed]

I am going to take a tiny sliver of information from the video out of context and make a (small) deal out of it... only because my brain cannot seem to let it go and I am anal-retentive:

As a parent of a child with autism I cringe when people refer to "autism" and "over-diagnosis and soft boundaries" in the same sentence. Autism is very real, scarily real, it is not a made up label that is thrown around to kids that are funny, that act funny or just sit in the back of the class. Autism is not over-diagnosed; in fact, you should be scared that 1 in 88 kids is autistic because chances are you know one. Chances are huge that YOUR child will be autistic. Don't knock it off as a medical gimmick.