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?
It’s not really a “not nice way” to put it. Maybe it’s not “the nicest”, but defo isn’t “not nice”. It’s a metaphore like many others and I think you took it like a kid would and overthought it for many years later. To me it’s the same as someone telling someone else “you will be Miss Universe when you grow up” and someone focusing on the exploitation in the industry and the general yuckiness around beauty pageants, rather than the compliment itself.
Anyway, we are kinda going in circles here, don’t think we need to keep this going on lol