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Message: <blockquote data-quote="R_J_K75" data-source="post: 9563085" data-attributes="member: 6921294">As [USER=7035894]@Clint_L[/USER] said, I was a latchkey kid too. We pretty much had the run of the neighborhood, spent a lot of time home alone, and came and went as we pleased from a very early age.My parents weren't very religious, but I do remember going to church on Sundays when I was very young. When I was about 5 or 6, I told them that I didn't want to go to church anymore as I thought it was boring and it didn't make sense to me, so they said OK, you don't have to go anymore. This was probably 1981 when times were extremely different. They just let me stay home alone while them and my brothers went after that. I was first introduced to D&D in 1982 by my father when he took me to a friend of his house who had started playing, and he bought me my first basic box set shortly after. Both my parents had no problem with me playing. Through grammar school, high school and into college I was never bullied for playing or even made fun of that I recall. A friend of mine once jokingly said that if I put as much effort into school that I did playing D&D I would be a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon. Overall, I was very fortunate to never have any negative experiences from playing the game.The only instance I recall was when I was in 5th or 6th grade, we had a substitute teacher for a day. When she saw me reading a D&D book after I finished our assignment, she said to me, "I hate that game with a purple passion, put them away and if I see them again, I will take them", I laughed and replied, "Good luck, I'd like to see you try".  My takeaway from that was, A) there's a reason you're a substitute teacher, and B) I bet she was blindly following the "D&D is bad" mindset that was popular at the time, and probably had just watched a segment on 20/20, but didn't know why she hated the game or understood one thing about it.</blockquote>

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