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~tskaalgard

Your reply made me think of another aspect of it: the solitude of it is particularly jarring just because I came of age during the period when geek culture was becoming mainstream. As a child I was alone, but then as a teen suddenly there was an EXPLOSION of people who were into the same things and it was great. Moving away from the directions most of these people have taken has created a certain solitude, and it is particularly jarring after the explosion of geek culture in the 2000s and 2010s.

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~abacushex wrote:

I can see that being jarring when it got to be a 'thing' in your teens, to not feel part of it. Clearly from my reaction to the overall experience, I was wired for the solitude anyway, so it suits me :)