Comment by sokoloff
6 days ago
I was partially (largely?) one of those other kids. Honestly, I loved it and, though it wasn’t perfect, I definitely wouldn’t re-roll my childhood if given the chance.
Later in life, I managed to catch up in dating and other aspects, but kept a good streak of nerd pride and am totally happy about that.
If you were to have observed my childhood and got depressed about it, that interpretation would have been misguided.
Yeah you're right, I was a pretty geeky teenager myself. Its a tough winner takes all world, maybe working your ass off in HS is a good strategy that I messed up.
Stockholm syndrome. And also you were force to invest a considerable amount of time in a specific activity.
You say "were force[d] to"; I say "chose to".
Only one of the two of us was there.
Which one?