I was born cursed, or lucky depending on who you talk to.
My parents met through a mutual love of science fiction fandom. My dad a science fiction author, and my mom a perpetual organizer and volunteer at science fiction conventions (which she still does to this day.) This means that I was pretty much born a geek. You might as well have put Spock ears on me in the crib.
Like so many other geeks, I was picked on in school. I discovered I had little in common with a lot of the students around me, and it was just easier not to talk about myself to them. Fortunately, I found others who would make some kind of reference to a science fiction novel or were scanning a 2e DMG in the computer lab. Those people I would seek out. In time, it became easier and easier to have geeky conversations during lunch.
Nowadays, I almost never hide my geeky side (and heck, it might even be impossible for me to do so at this point, with what comes up when you google my name.) I fly my geek flag high in my office (literally, I bought it at ren faire). I put the games I’ve designed on my professional resume. I’m not afraid to speak out with my geek out, for those that judge me aren’t going to be the kind of people I want to talk to anyway.
Some would say I was born cursed because there was little chance I wouldn’t become a geek of some kind. Others might say I’m blessed because I don’t have to keep that side of my life a secret. I would like to live in a world where being a geek is accepted for everyone, where everybody feels blessed because they are a geek.
(The title, by the way, comes from comments on what the title of my memoir should be called, should I ever write it, after I recounted my experience playing an RPG with Gary Gygax.)
I’m actually a little jealous. I would have loved geeky parents. After going away to college, I realized how much I despised television and, in particular professional sports. Geeks > rabid sports fans. I’m thankful to have married a wonderfully geeky woman, however.
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You NEED to write your book…this title is genius and will be a hit, as almost everyone is familiar with the ‘other’ version. Book, then Movie!
Prime reason, help make Geekshas Cool n Sexy; break the stereotype of geek linked vaguely or overtly with ANYthing negative.
Modern culture/internet have raised the bar for geek chic and SMART IQ; there is no excuse for general illiteracy etc.
JUST DO IT [whatev eff u nike] . For realz, For all the young insecure teen geekshas.