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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Midknightsun" data-source="post: 5443255" data-attributes="member: 46459">Sort of. . . . I don't go around announcing it to the general public, but my fiancee and her family knows (mine have known forever) of my gaming habits.  She considers it "weird", but at the same time is just happy that I'm not into football and she adores me to death regardless.  Her family often makes fun of me, but they don't intend to be mean, they just like giving me a hard time. I don't tell coworkers and don't bring it up in job interviews anymore.  In my experience, its too much of a gamble.  I may come across a lapsed or current gamer who thinks its great. . . . or I may get interviewed by someone who thinks Jack Chick was too liberal, so I play my cards close to my chest.  If I were asked straight on if I played D&D I wouldn't deny it, but I seldom have seen the benefit of volunteering it, especially around those who think its a "kids game" that a 37 year old shouldn't be playing anymore, a waste of time, or some kind of morally questionable activity.  I guess the 80s made me a little more conservative about who I talk to, so I just keep my "Game-dar" on. It is a shame and its irritating at times when someone gives me a hard time about it, or I just get "the look".   I've even told my fiancee that sometimes it does bug me when her family knocks my "geeky" hobby, considering all the weird things her family members do, and considering I am also far better shape than either of her brothers (who are both younger than me), it just kind of kills me.I will say that I currently work with kids, and I have introduced D&D to one of them as a vehicle to help me work on his particular issues.  He loves it! In this case though I waited a good six months before suggesting it to his mother and her boyfriend.  The boyfriend is a Warhammer gamer and mom is a geek herself, so I knew they'd be cool with it.So, I get to use D&D as therapy, which is cool, but after 25 years of being generally looked down upon for it, I guess I avoid bringing it up because I know what most people think of it, and the years have worn down my tolerance of the ignorance most people have of the hobby.  So I tend to avoid talking about it because I get too torked too easily anymore.</blockquote>

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