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<blockquote data-quote="sev" data-source="post: 5286101" data-attributes="member: 77780">Sometimes I forget what a privilege it is for me to have always lived in or near a big city and to have worked for a dot-com.&nbsp; I've never had to be closeted about my interest in RPGs.&nbsp; Even as a kid, the worst response I got was that people thought I was a little weird...but they already thought that.That said, now that I spend most of my time with other parents-of-small-children, the topic mostly doesn't come up.&nbsp; Except for with the handful of parents who want to talk about how to shoehorn game-time into a life with small children in it. I was reading a D&amp;D book in the &quot;observation area&quot; for my daughter's circus class a few months ago, though, and the parents of the other two kids in her class were *fascinated* by the idea that I was preparing for playing a role-playing game.&nbsp; They'd heard of D&amp;D but had never played, and they made a point of asking me the next week how &quot;that game thingy of yours&quot; went.&nbsp; I felt like an anthropological expedition for them.&nbsp; Very different from the reaction I got from non-players in the rest of my life, who usually ask if I think they should learn how to play.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="sev, post: 5286101, member: 77780"] Sometimes I forget what a privilege it is for me to have always lived in or near a big city and to have worked for a dot-com. I've never had to be closeted about my interest in RPGs. Even as a kid, the worst response I got was that people thought I was a little weird...but they already thought that. That said, now that I spend most of my time with other parents-of-small-children, the topic mostly doesn't come up. Except for with the handful of parents who want to talk about how to shoehorn game-time into a life with small children in it. I was reading a D&D book in the "observation area" for my daughter's circus class a few months ago, though, and the parents of the other two kids in her class were *fascinated* by the idea that I was preparing for playing a role-playing game. They'd heard of D&D but had never played, and they made a point of asking me the next week how "that game thingy of yours" went. I felt like an anthropological expedition for them. Very different from the reaction I got from non-players in the rest of my life, who usually ask if I think they should learn how to play. [/QUOTE]

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