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Comics and D&D were never part of the cool crowd. The hard part was if you didn't have anything to balance that. I played football. I wasn't getting invited to
by devilbunny 3y ago
Comics and D&D were never part of the cool crowd. The hard part was if you didn't have anything to balance that.
I played football. I wasn't getting invited to big parties, but nobody bugged me. Even guys who were never good enough to be first string as seniors - they were part of the team. But that might just have been my school. It was pretty good about letting the drama kids be drama kids, the nerds be nerds, etc. People generally found their niche. Maybe it wasn't the one they wished they could have, but it was a place where you were accepted, and they mostly left each other alone.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoYeah, I didn't have proclivities towards sports and my parents didn't the money for equipment or the time to come get me from events (we were rural so you couldn't just bus home) so I couldn't find an extracurricular niche and didn't earn the respect of the school.
- deprecative 3y agoWhy would anyone bug you? You played Football, presumably that meant you were able to beat the shit out of most anyone who would have bugged you. That's a bullying deterrent. If you had purely intellectual interests, or physical issues in general you quite likely would not have had the same experience. It's not about niche finding so much as it's about social blending and masking.
- devilbunny 3y agoI've never been in a fight in my life. I was far from the strongest guy on the team. The most "pure intellectual" people in my class ended up editing the school paper and being in student government. They might have been made fun of, especially behind their backs, but nobody ever really tore them up. Like I said, it was a place where you could find your niche and live in it. Not perfect, and if you wanted to have a conflict, you could. But mostly, that didn't happen.