DO DORKS COUNT?

I have chronic dorkalitis coupled with foot in mouth disease, does with count as being a dag???  As my condition often leads to intensely awkward moments, lack of friends and being ostracized by most  of society, I am unsure that it can be included with the benevolent whackiness of Dagginess………however I have recently developed several facial ticks!!!……….is this a symptom???? 

Re: DO DORKS COUNT?

Works for me.
Do you delight in your”uniqueness?.
How 'bout the rest of dagdome…don't you think dork is just another manifestation of  dag???

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Are dags and dorks the same????  Dagginess conjures up images of purple trousers, silly hats, messy hair. geekiness, food stains on clothes, clumbsiness,  etc…whereas the dork is perhaps more aware of his predicament, self conscious and uncomfortalbe.  Perhaps the dork is a dag who is not fully accepting of him/herself.  A dork is someone who is generally talked over in conversations because when they do talk it is either inaudible or comes out in a gibbery mess.  As I said dorkiness tends to be a chronic condition, developed at an early age and then becoming acute after years of negetive outside input.  
The dag is more accepting of herself because she has a blessing of being slightly off the planet and thus unaware of any separation in a negetive sense from the rest of society.  The dag is blissfully ignorant, childlike and innocent.  The dork on the otherhand knows that they are  not quite “right”  and thus fear is born.  I have spent many a year denying  my rainbow socks and roman sandals.   So what to do?  What IS the next evolutionary step????? And is there even one….or are these the random mumblings of terminal dorkitis????

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Yes, of course dorks count!!! Count yourself a dag! Not all dorks, I mean dags are blissfully ignorant of their condition. Many have painfully hoarded away their desires to dress and look differently and swallowed down their silly jokes, in fear of the awkward silence that often follows when others don’t laugh or “get” them. My partner is a dork I’d say (a slightly unique manifestation of a dag) and I take liberty to share some of his peculiarities (hopefully when he joins this pod he won’t mind but might try to get me back by sharing some of mine - oh well I don’t care, I won’t be embarrased - I don’t think?). My darling is accident prone, I like collecting beautiful crockery and he likes breaking them (not on purpose). Well actually he doesn’t “like” breaking them, but we’ve collected a lot of nice pieces for a really good mosiac one day. In the meantime we decorate our garden with “my special” broken cups, plates etc.
He is very forgetful. Say I’ve sent him to the shop for the express purpose of getting some milk, four hours later he’ll return home perhaps with other things or perhaps not, and when I ask him about the milk he’ll reply… “What milk?” “Oh, the milk!!!” Then proceed to bang his head on the wall (well only occassionally) and call himself a dork. He spends so much time making mistakes and then calling himself all manner of names and ridiculing himself, it really is a viscious cycle. I have to learn to let go of being annoyed at him for forgetting, it won’t get me anywhere or help him. Fortunately he can also laugh at himself and we get a lot of good laughs out of it. Plenty of ideas for skits for a commedy show or funniest home videos.
I think dork is said in a derogatory way as is dag sometimes, but both can be good humoured terms of endearment. I think it’s about accepting your faults and inadequacies, not taking them too seriously and learning to laugh at yourself. Let go, what does it all matter anyway. We ALL have inadequacies, problems, fears, phobias and are just plain weird. There is no such thing as normal. Normal is what’s accepted and is often a pretence anyway by those that are too afraid to accept their uniqueness in a critical society. Hang out with other dorks and dags so that you don’t feel alone and begin to feel comfortable being yourself. Try some good humoured bantering and teasing, by laughing at (well not at but with, in a harmless way with no intention to wound) each others and your own ridiculous traits and experiences to take off the pressure of being labelled “outcast, bad, dumb, idiot, stupid, not acceptable” etc.
Tics are a real good source for humour, if you exaggerate your tic the one you have will become less worrisome. I guess it can also work to disguise your real one or your embarasment by making a joke of it. Make others laugh as well. Well they might just think you’re an idiot but that’s probably because they haven’t accepted their inner idiot! Any dag will love your tic and the ability to be able to share it in good humour with others. I think a lot of the problem with dorkiness is suppressing the real self and being uncomfortable expressing that so not being able to speak up, tripping over because you’re perhaps worrying, feeling awkward (and so you become akward), in your head and not being present, so you don’t notice your surroundings and walk into a wall. The wall is your self, the wall you have imprisoned your true self behind. In this pod we love all dags and dorks so welcome and learn to love YOU too!
Dags often have a gift for commedy (did you know ADD or ADHD is often a dag trait or symptom too?). Dags and dorks have a gift to give the world in teaching others to be humble, to laugh, not take life or themselves so seriously, to be “light”-hearted. The problem is when the blissfully ignorant dag or dork is a narssisist, like my dad, that’s scary! But many of us have an inner need for attention and might show off, well that’s another manifestation of poor self esteem as well. The need to be validated and approved of, often incurring disaproval by his actions. Any attention is better than none even if it’s negative is the catch phrase. However in accepting your dagginess, dorkism, nerdishness or whatever and loving yourself anyway lies the key to your freedom, on the world stage, at home or in relationship with others. Be proud to wear your rainbow socks and roman sandals, many a hippie would think you “cool”!

How 'bout Dicks?????

OK.  So we've established that dorks are a sub division of dags, but what about Dicks.  Because this is the crux of the matter for me.  I fully support, treasure and love the dag in me.  The dork in me I can appreciate and enjoy, even those awkward squirming moments.  But what I find difficult to fully accept is the dick.  Sometimes moments of dagginess esculate, the more you try to save the moment, the bigger the hole you dig for yourself and the bigger the *dick you become**,  Generally this is a simple case of foot in mouth disease.  Accidently insulting people happens quite often to me, not because I am malicious, but simply because I forget to check the words entering my brain before they leave the mouth.  Lately during some of these episodes I fully felt the exquisite pain of the moment,  It felt like all the blood was draining out the bottom of my feet, while hot tar was being poured in through my ears. I think that embracing dagginss  is actually the true road to Enlightenment. It teaches you to live in the now by turning your face red and giving you the feeling your guts are about to fall out,  It teaches you compassion and forgiveness (the only other alternative being insanity) and It quietens the mind { you could hear a pin drop!!!!!!!}    


* I am from New Zealand where the word Dick is used as an insult meaning a foolish, pathetic or stupid person
** Disclaimer-  All references to any before mentioned articles are of a purely unsexual nature.  Any innuendos you may find are in your own sordid minds!!!!!!

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Like Can said, “…However in accepting your dagginess, dorkism, nerdishness or whatever and loving yourself anyway lies the key to your freedom, on the world stage, at home or in relationship with others…”

Accept your discomfort with a smile, a shrug, an oops, a shake of the head…

Have you looked up the definition of enlightenment?

Prefix en - in
Suffix ment - Result of action. An act or instance of doing something.

en + ment - to be actively involved

Root lighten -
v.tr.
1. To make less heavy.
2. To lessen the oppressiveness, trouble, or severity of.
3. To relieve of cares or worries; gladden.
v.intr.
1. To become less in weight.
2. To become less oppressive, troublesome, or severe.
3. To become cheerful.
v.intr.
1. To become lighter; brighten.
2. To be luminous; shine.
3. To give off flashes of lightning.

enlightement - To be actively involved in lighten up.
enlightenment- To be actively involved in being cheerful.

or…Don't worry ~ Be Happy

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How cool is it to be quoted!