Why it’s awesome to be awkward | Ty Tashiro

Nerds are all the rage. They may be social misfits but ‘awkwards’ see detail in glorious TechnicolourA few years ago, “awkward” became the term du jour for the socially clumsy. When I looked at the number of people who Googled the question “Why am I so awkward?”, I saw a spike that remained consistent for five years. The sharp rise in people’s interest in awkwardness may partly reflect the trendiness of the word, but also that more people are feeling soc