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Comment author: Ritalin 12 November 2012 11:41:53PM 2 points [-]

I honestly don't know what knb means by aspergery. I've never met anyone who was diagonsed with aspergers. I find the fictional examples I've been told "looked like aspergers" to be vague and not really good evidence to extrapolate from, being very different from each other. I also don't have a clear idea of what they mean by "nerd".

On TVTropes, we define "geek" as someone with specialized interests, and "nerd" as someone with poor social skills. A nerd who isn't a even a geek is Napoleon Dynamite. A geek who isn't a nerd is Steve Jobs (or president Bartlet from The West Wing). But I hear that our definition is not universal, and that there's a fair share of controversy.

I think I'm justified in asking knb to specify what he means by those words, given that there seems to be a lack of consensus or a vague consensus, if only for the purpose of this discussion.