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?

  • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    7 months ago

    How did I manage to come off as so brainless and lacking in self respect that I’d have nothing better to do than be someone’s wife?

    genuinely curious, how did “you’d be a good wife” turn into “you’d be brainless and lacking in self respect, and would be nothing more than a spouse”?

    • Voran@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 months ago

      Because what they clearly meant is that I came across as being nothing but help staff.