Fight for NERD Rights: Being Yourself shouldnt be traumatic
Before everything turned to shit and the world went upside-down, Bug was a senior in high school. Like a lot of kids he wasn't particularly good at anything. He had no idea what he wanted to be when he became a man. He knew only that he would become one. Beyond that there were just sheets of wordless suffocation and the distinct feeling that guys like him never got anything on the sacred list. The sacred list which, for countless eons had never been seen by anyone remotely associated with geek-dom, was comprised of five mystical and secret things. Some say that the list is a myth. Others claim that it's hidden in a great temple deep within the mountains, guarded by various quarterbacks, cheerleaders, hip kids, and bad asses from the days of yore. It's every geeks desire to quest for this ancient list. And many have died trying to find it. I would gladly give you some insight into its wisdom but I was from the other side of the fence.
So Bug was staring down the barrel of the final four months of his young life. Four more months and he would graduate into the real world. And although he was just a kick-around guy he knew that the future was the kind of place that afforded guys like him second chances. The truth, of course, was that he would be moving into a much larger pool of human beings. The kick-around-guy factor would more than triple in university. Little did Bug know then, but by fourth year there wasn't anyone left except kick-around-people. You see, they're usually the smart ones. They're the kind of people that build the stadiums that jocks play in. No stadium, no game. They're also the guys that become agents and high level executives. So they end up negotiating player contracts on both sides. So, rather ironically, kick-around-people usually end up holding the good end of the leash. But that's just the way karma works. Don't ask me why it works like that. That one's for The Buddha.
-excerpt from "The Bug Man Cometh." by Matthew Good.
Out of every one hundred athletes only one will ever make it professionally. Out of every one hundred kick-around-people more than half will do the same. The ranks are filled with people that you would never guess were once kick-around-types. The list is so long that if you laid it out starting in Vancouver it would end somewhere near Beijing. That's a pretty big list.
-excerpt from "The Bug Man Cometh." by Matthew Good.
There are some negatives that come with being nerdy. There is the pain and difficulty of not fitting into society, the feeling of being misunderstood, and the mistreatment which sometimes comes from others. Often, the worst of this mistreatment occurs during some of the most vulnerable times of one's life, mostly adolescence.
One of the things the creator of this site want to convey, is that bullying and mistreatment of people who are different has to end. When it occurs, it has to be confronted. Thats the reason I included within the links several anti-bullying sites. Unite with others to fight this oppression of nerds and those who are different.
Another thing I wanted this site to convey is that there is a flip side to being different and eccentric. Usually, with each eccentricity comes a gift. People who were seen to be "weird" can go on to being some of the most creative people that the world has ever seen. People who were seen as Nerdy or geeky, can be the geniuses that obtain success inventing new things, or making great or better use of the resources this society already provides. When you are smart, creative, or unique, society will need you. Its important to keep with it and to find your niche... or, if there is no niche, then to CREATE one.
