[RiderOfGiraffes]

The article is about understanding your nerd, and what it says is true. You will get social incompetence and rudeness from your nerd, whether or not you believe it to be acceptable.

This article is a step towards understanding not just by people of nerds, but by nerds of themselves. I was 17 when someone recognised these aspects f the nerd in me, and made me see them myself. Net result was that I made it a project to make myself socially capable.

In the main I succeeded, although there are still occasions when I slip and fall, but it was recognising and accepting the truth that made it possible to change.

The article is right as it stands, as indeed you actually acknowledge when you say "Nerds have to realize ... they are performing a trade-off."