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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teflon Billy" data-source="post: 346440" data-attributes="member: 264">My whole family has always been pretty supportive.Parents: In my teens they weren't too wild about gaming as they felt that I wasn't spendning enough time on my schoolwork (they were correct). They were impressed at my growing collection of novels, my growing interest in reading, and my newfound ability to do fairly complex math in my head. My improved vocabulary sealed the deal. Gift giving occasions became socks, underwear and gaming gear.Grandparents: Had a better grasp of the benefits of me enjoying something that involved reading, math and imagination. My Grandparents were responsible for me beng able to read at a very early age (3), and were always right there buying me any reading material they thought I would read. When I was all frothy about Star Wars in 1977-78 (I was 7 years old), my Grandfather came over one day with a few Magazines about Star wars and an entire set of Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter of Mars paperbacks.It was no break in pattern for them to show up at my birthday party with a copy of Deities and Demigods (much to the chagrin of the bible-belt parents who were in attendance as well...you have not lived til you've seen a 60-ish year old woman trying to pronounce Cthulu Mythos names to a gleefully sugared-up crowd of 12-year olds).Everyone else: I couldn't care less and never checked<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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