First signs of nerd-dom?

[Captain Jacqui Sparrow]

What were the first signs that you were going to be a nerd/were a nerd as a kid? 

For me, it was when I was able to memorize all of the states, their capitals, and their locations that my parents knew something was up. Then, soon after, came my love of robots. I never wanted to be a princess. I wanted to be a cyborg with an arm that shoots globs of toxic plasma. I even started to raise my own army of robotic toy dogs lol. I was also addicted to web forums by the time I was 8. (thank you, Nick.com for that one!) and haven't changed one bit since lol. 

[Zirror]

hmm.........
that is a damn good question...
My first sign was probably... uhm... maybe enjoying powerrangers a little too much.
Shortly after that came the chess-club, and a club-for-introducing-recycling-to-our-school... (for which we were called 'gargabe men' by our peers ò.ó).

[Emm]

You wanted to be a cyborg? That's so cool!
I wanted to be a superhero.
I actually have no idea what was the first sign that I was/would be a nerd.
I personally never even realised I was a nerd until it started being pointed out by the other people at my school.
haha.

[Captain Jacqui Sparrow]

Yup! I've always loved cyborgs/androids. I'd be a crime-fighting robot lady, though. Not the kind that takes over the world... at least I don't think I'd try to take over the world lol.
I didn't want to be a regular superhero. I always knew that I should just plain not wear leggings/tights as pants lol.

After I grew out of my awkward emo kid phase in middle school, I embraced my nerdiness (with a good amount of help from the internet).

[Haley]

When I was 2 or 3 and I did a 100 piece United States puzzle with no help. Then I did it upside down.

I did always want to be a princess though, but the crime fighting kind. I thought that it would be fun.

[Paige]

I blame my parents for my nerdiness, though I wouldn't have it any other way. Almost every night, we'd watch Star Trek: The Next Generation when it came on TV. Also, I love Star Wars and Jurassic Park (I used to wander around the house pretending I was a velociraptor). And then, of course, there were the video games. I didn't grow up on an N64, but we did have an Atari 5200 and I got a Playstation for Christmas when I was 7. Not to mention, I'd been using a computer since I was like 5 (not actually sure what age, but I do know it was before we had Windows. Instead we had DOS.)

[Lenore103]

I didn't have many friends as a kid... I was too busy digging through the gravel on the playground for "treasures" (I found lots of neat stuff people had lost-- money, jewelry, little toys, etc) to be bothered playing with other kids. In my spare time, I was out in a field classifying insects or inside, drawing, painting or reading a book. I only had one friend, who is still my BF at 21yo, and we played the same game every recess-- we acted out dramatic death scenes from plays we made up. We wanted to be actresses then, but I think that dream died when she got hurt falling off a large snowbank whilst acting out a "Plaincrash in the Andes Mountains Death Scene" in fourth grade.

[Chip, A Former Ningmaster]

I love 4-year-old you.

[Daniel]

idem dito :)

[Cavalier]

Coke bottle glasses, memorized bar code on the shampoo bottle when I was like five, my love for Star Wars, I was told I could skip kindergarden and go straight to 1st. And the funny thing is I denied I was a nerd untill a year ago when I started watching the Vlogbrothers.

[Kathleen Konno]

For me, it was when I learned to read at 2 and 1/2 years old. I ended up reading everything to other kids. Also, I loved learning and always had a "different book" for reading and phonics than the other kids in my class. I never realized why until about second grade. Also I had obsessions with movies, television shows, and books, so much so that I even wrote a few plays based on my favorite programs and things.

[Captain Jacqui Sparrow]

Nice. I learned to read at a really early age too. The first words I read were apparently on a road sign for a car wash. I always got bored by phonics, but I guess that tends to happen when you speak Spanish, a phonetic language, fluently. I had a weirdly good sense of direction as a kid. I always knew which was was north. I never really wrote plays. I tried to write a novel, but I realized that it was a lame HP knockoff so I gave up on it lol. I also once tried to write a few songs for piano. I don't really remember how they went, but they probably weren't very good. Third graders usually don't make good composers lol.

[Rena]

Preferring to spend time alone in my room (staging rescues of my stuffed animals that involved disabling "lasers"), preferring to read at recess (or worse, holding intelligent conversation with TEACHERS) instead of playing or socializing--by the time I was old enough to WANT to make friends, I'd cemented my identity as "weird, quiet, and no fun" [perspective friend, age 10]. So I turned my attentions to the internet and memorizing trivial things about whatever books/television I was obsessed with.