I have birthed a nerd. He is loud and proud and positively identifies as a nerd. The other day we argued about whether he was hyper fixated or hyper obsessed. Neither of us really knew what we were talking about in terms of proper clinical terms and ideas – but when he rolled his eyes at me and insisted I do more research, he won the argument. He’s 12. …
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