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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 6128525" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>I started out age 10-11 joining a little group in the East Middle School library in Aurora, Colorado in 1977/78. I was a lifelong reader of fantasy & Sci-fi due to my Dad and some odd happenstance.* The first adventure hooked me.</p><p></p><p>As we moved around- I was an Army Brat- I found that there were a lot of gamers in the military, both active duty and dependents. In the earliest days, I didn't associate gaming with unpopularity. I had lots of gamer friends, and there were lots of the other standard "reasons" to dislike me: overweight, short, smart, black.</p><p></p><p>It wasn't until I landed in a private school that I made the connection between gaming and unpopularity...juuuust as the "Satanic Panic" got under full sway. Mom was concerned at first, but the fact that I still went to church willingly, hadn't caused any problems with the monks at school, and generally hadn't changed a bit killed that noise early on. Fortunately, she never dumped my gaming stuff as happened to so many kids in those days.</p><p></p><p>By the time I got into college, my nerdiness was as much a part of me as my hair, and battles about the way I was treated because of my race had given me an internal toughness that any guff I got for being a gamer was truly immaterial.</p><p></p><p>So I basically don't <em>advertise</em> my gamerness, but I don't hide it, either. I don't bring my gaming to work- no books, no paraphernalia- but if you come to my house you'll see it. If it comes up in conversation, I'll discuss it. If I'm going to a gaming store and get asked where I'm going, I'll say I'm going to that store...assuming I'm not playing hooky, of course! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>* one of my early school books included an excerpt from <em>The Hobbit</em>- Bilbo & Golum's riddles in the dark- and a short piece from Anne McCaffrey's <em>Dragonriders</em> setting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 6128525, member: 19675"] I started out age 10-11 joining a little group in the East Middle School library in Aurora, Colorado in 1977/78. I was a lifelong reader of fantasy & Sci-fi due to my Dad and some odd happenstance.* The first adventure hooked me. As we moved around- I was an Army Brat- I found that there were a lot of gamers in the military, both active duty and dependents. In the earliest days, I didn't associate gaming with unpopularity. I had lots of gamer friends, and there were lots of the other standard "reasons" to dislike me: overweight, short, smart, black. It wasn't until I landed in a private school that I made the connection between gaming and unpopularity...juuuust as the "Satanic Panic" got under full sway. Mom was concerned at first, but the fact that I still went to church willingly, hadn't caused any problems with the monks at school, and generally hadn't changed a bit killed that noise early on. Fortunately, she never dumped my gaming stuff as happened to so many kids in those days. By the time I got into college, my nerdiness was as much a part of me as my hair, and battles about the way I was treated because of my race had given me an internal toughness that any guff I got for being a gamer was truly immaterial. So I basically don't [I]advertise[/I] my gamerness, but I don't hide it, either. I don't bring my gaming to work- no books, no paraphernalia- but if you come to my house you'll see it. If it comes up in conversation, I'll discuss it. If I'm going to a gaming store and get asked where I'm going, I'll say I'm going to that store...assuming I'm not playing hooky, of course! ;) * one of my early school books included an excerpt from [I]The Hobbit[/I]- Bilbo & Golum's riddles in the dark- and a short piece from Anne McCaffrey's [I]Dragonriders[/I] setting. [/QUOTE]
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