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<blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6604948" data-attributes="member: 5834">Besides my mother bringing up D&amp;D making people into murderers because she watched a special that made the claim there was a correlation between the two, no stories I can think of one way or other. I live in Washington. Nerds are extremely common in Washington State. Most people are video game nerds, but video game nerds generally don't discriminate against D&amp;D nerds. The one area where I do avoid D&amp;D talk is with women. Women still don't find D&amp;D attractive, at least most women (though more women play D&amp;D today than in the past for sure). When even the owner of your football team is a nerd (Paul Allen of Microsoft) and your state is well known for tech, very hard to find nerd discrimination. Not to mention all the people walking around with tats and piercings and using drugs, regular folk often feel relieved to find out you're just a nerd in Washington. I'm beginning to think Washington State is an oddball place that is sort a nerd/strange people mecca in the United States. When you grow up here, you don't notice the commonness of nerds or strange looking folk. I've heard from people from other parts of the United States that we're odd people, a bunch of hippies, nerds, goths, and other strange names. To sum it up, no, I've never felt nerd discrimination where I live. My friends and I used to play D&amp;D at parties. Everyone there just left us to our business. Heck, I was a heavy weight lifter in high school and my early twenties. I loved playing sports. I loved reading fantasy. I enjoyed all my subjects in school. And I loved playing RPGs. It was all accepted where I lived whether at work or when socializing. Still is today.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celtavian, post: 6604948, member: 5834"] Besides my mother bringing up D&D making people into murderers because she watched a special that made the claim there was a correlation between the two, no stories I can think of one way or other. I live in Washington. Nerds are extremely common in Washington State. Most people are video game nerds, but video game nerds generally don't discriminate against D&D nerds. The one area where I do avoid D&D talk is with women. Women still don't find D&D attractive, at least most women (though more women play D&D today than in the past for sure). When even the owner of your football team is a nerd (Paul Allen of Microsoft) and your state is well known for tech, very hard to find nerd discrimination. Not to mention all the people walking around with tats and piercings and using drugs, regular folk often feel relieved to find out you're just a nerd in Washington. I'm beginning to think Washington State is an oddball place that is sort a nerd/strange people mecca in the United States. When you grow up here, you don't notice the commonness of nerds or strange looking folk. I've heard from people from other parts of the United States that we're odd people, a bunch of hippies, nerds, goths, and other strange names. To sum it up, no, I've never felt nerd discrimination where I live. My friends and I used to play D&D at parties. Everyone there just left us to our business. Heck, I was a heavy weight lifter in high school and my early twenties. I loved playing sports. I loved reading fantasy. I enjoyed all my subjects in school. And I loved playing RPGs. It was all accepted where I lived whether at work or when socializing. Still is today. [/QUOTE]

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