Actor and comedian Brian Posehn, in his bio Forever Nerdy, described being a nerdy kid in the '70s and '80s. He had gotten glasses early, and later, as you can see by his picture, braces. As he wrote: "I had gotten gawkier looking with braces and a retainer. And some days even headgear."
Posehn described himself as an uber-nerd, and that "when I was around ten years old, I was the lethal combo of super tall and super skinny with dorky, black-framed glasses, pimples and braces."
