For me, growing up, I was around people who saw games as useless and a waste of time, but I loved them

I’ve always been into computers and tech and was called techy and a gamer and each time, it was said with a sort of disgust from the person saying it.

It made me feel like I shouldn’t be friends with the few people like me, and I spent a lot of my childhood staying away from people, and making sure that people didn’t learn that I played games

Even now, I get slightly uncomfortable being called a gamer or techy or any synonym even though people don’t really think that anymore around here.

Anyone else have something similar?

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I don’t mind people calling me nerdy. Once overhead someone telling someone else at work that I was “so funny” when generally I keep it in check at work, and that felt complimentary as well.

    But one time a yoga teacher told us in a class “you are bigger than you think” and I don’t even know what she meant, my stomach dropped, I felt absolutely awful. And while I am womanly as fuck, absolutely a woman, I dislike being seen as feminine. I don’t like being complimented on looking curvy, softness and squish freaks me out much more than it should. I know people mean those as compliments but they make me want to cry.