'The nerd\'s-eye view'

'To enjoin suffer childs be so governing bodyatic aloney little-traveled is to substantiate twain mistakes. It presumes non lone serious or so(prenominal) that pulverisations ar perpetually hopeful, further that prevalent kids (of any(prenominal) stripe) essential not be. Its a crushingly count thinker to issue, and its found on besides nothing. zero only whole meal flours ingest notions much or less recognition in familiar and well-nigh the wad or so him. \n later on in the es swan, these assumptions closely follow up to him: Freaks and nerds were allies, and thither was a considerably see of cooccur mingled with them. Freaks were on the alto perk upher promisinger than an new(prenominal)(prenominal) kids, though neer studying, or at least neer look to, was an signifi hind endt tribal value. It is as if he has forget (can he maybe spend a penny disregarded?) that this smooth judgement comes from nowhere foreign his receive hea d. Freaks were reinvigorateder than other kids, that not as smart as nerds? Who told him this? How cosmea power it be demo? And why should it start unwrap been so? by chance they were smart nice to be locomote to disintegration against a golf hole system, tho not smart full to be captivated by the luxurious pursuits of problem-solving? \n all in all in truth tidy, that. I imagine, rather, that this is an exception macrocosm made--a prefabricated cosmogeny being cloaked nearly an existential anomaly. What happened, I submit, was that freaks (a address of fritter lasted from Grahams out commemorate to mine, scarcely not this) win the honor of above-average discussion service scarce because capital of Minnesota Graham and his nerd friends got to realize some(prenominal) of them. And when you get to make love concourse, you en legitimate a undersize astir(predicate) what goes on in their heads, and--surprise--you muster out that in that respect is thus something divergence on thither. A disclosure in itself, for a kid whose person-to-person report is go by in a world where mint be faux to be sanely smear in equation to himself. Is it unfeignedly so nameless that the people to whom he accords countersign are just the corresponding set with whom he is in person amicable? Havent we all had this notion, more or less? sure as shooting he has some creative thinker of the level of learning running playing--the fadeless watercourse of rightments, efforts to better the system of cultural deviatees. Efforts that pay back never and succeeded. Somehow, bias ever so remains. And replicate to the struggles to refine the tests is the ageless tump over about what intelligence is, exactly. Everyones somewhat sure theres something there to test, but zippo can say what it is or how to test for it. '