For me, growing up, I was around people who saw games as useless and a waste of time, but I loved them

I’ve always been into computers and tech and was called techy and a gamer and each time, it was said with a sort of disgust from the person saying it.

It made me feel like I shouldn’t be friends with the few people like me, and I spent a lot of my childhood staying away from people, and making sure that people didn’t learn that I played games

Even now, I get slightly uncomfortable being called a gamer or techy or any synonym even though people don’t really think that anymore around here.

Anyone else have something similar?

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    None of my friends knew that I played World of Warcraft. They wondered why I started sometimes going no contact and not going out with them on a weekend evening. It’s because I was doing arena, or raiding. They didn’t find out that me and my wife got very into WoW until several years later. I’m a dirt bike rider, a martial artist, and an athlete. The whole gamer nerd persona didn’t sit right with me, so I hid it.