Nerd Definition Essay

When I was in middle school, there was a boy named Richard who would always pick on me and come up with names that were hurtful to me. One thing he would say was, “You’re such a nerd!” This offended me and made me feel self conscience because when I think of the word nerd, I think of someone who is socially awkward. The word nerd has two different meanings, one being, “a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.,” and the other being, “an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit (dictionary.com).” Both of those definitions are not like me. I am a very energetic and talkative person and I do many things that involve being social. Someone posted a question asking what people thought of when they heard the word nerd and one person said, “They would be socially inept. Not necessarily unattractive but because of their inept manner perhaps their clothes are not fashionable and even perhaps they don't wash enough. I think that they might often be overly-obsessed with a certain solitary pursuit. This might often be intellectual but not …show more content…
The person who used the word nerd fast didn’t mean for it to be negative , so what made people choose to make it negative? The word nerd was first used in 1950 in the If I Ran the Zoo book written by Dr. Seuss. In his book it said ‘“A nerkle, a nerd, a seersucker too.”’ It is unknown as to what Dr. Seuss meant by the word nerd but it wasn’t intended to be a negative word, it was supposed to be funny for a children’s book, however children related it to an unpleasant creature. In 1951, Newsletter magazine used the world nerd in their article and officially changed it into a negative