At my 15-year HS class reunion, an ex-jock was drunk and blubbering in my ear about how he admired my smarts. It made me wonder if I had misread his high school jibes as criticism rather than an attempt to just joke around. I didn't hang around jocks, so I didn't know what was normal for them. Either way, after high school I learned that what seemed important back then was exactly the opposite in the real world. Popularity won't get you a job but intelligence will.
Wow! How to change someone’s world! That is the most incredible advice! If someone had said that to me when I was at school, I would’ve felt better about myself. Truth is I let the bullies make me feel bad continuously & everyday! As a result I suffered Decades of poor self image 😢 I often wonder where I’d be if I hadn’t let them get to me and I’d just been me. If I could inly go back knowing what I know now! You are a true gentleman Will Wheaton!
I embraced my nerdiness as a kid. Decades later, I'm the most successful of my school's former students with a couple exceptions... and they were nerds too. If you're a nerdy kid, keeping nerding. Eventually, you'll find out that there's a higher demand in this world for nerds than there is for people who make fun of nerds.
If I hadn’t known better I would have thought he had this answer prewritten. You can tell this was something that deeply resonated with him. What a great response.
@@ThaFuzzwood Define "often". I don't live in a fairy tale world. The vast, vast, vast, majority of bullying cases happen in such a way that the person being bullied is not in any way able to defend themselves. If they try, they get stomped... sometimes killed. It's also disingenuous the framing Wheaton used to describe the bully. Most bullies are just a-holes. They have fine lives and the same struggles as the people they bully.
Remember first seeing Will on Star Trek. I'm an old bloke with kids and you get a sense about people over time; he just struck me as a sweet and kind boy. He was a great addition to the cast and a super cool character young people could identify with. It seems I was correct, what a wonderful man he's become.
@@ThaFuzzwood no it means they look to other people to help with their own problems, in particular some washed up Star Trek actor. By definition, that’s nerdy.
@@EamonKelly the word was nerdy, not nerd. To do what they did was nerdy. Hard Y at the end there. Thanks for trying to sound educated though .You could say that your comment itself was nerdy.
Ive convinced my children that being a nerd is a compliment. Its the best thing ever and something we try to achive. Which is honestly. Something i wish someone had said to me at a young age.
He's a weak person. He doesn't want to hurt his people's feelings despite knowing that it's bad to support the things he supports. He literally tried to appease to his people and because he used a block together list it had some "trans" people on it and he got kicked off of mastodon, even though he wasn't intending on blocking them as it was a mistake on his part for not knowing. And he still defends the people that now hate him. He got what he deserved tbh. I'm a nerd but i'm not a progressive leftist.
Explain to them about the future: "In the future I'll be building rockets to the planets while you're job will consist of telling customers, Welcome to Walmart". "You're darned right I'm a nerd". :-)
Well Handled, Wil and Well Done! Oh, btw, loved your bit " William F*#!ing Shatter". That was hilarious as are all true stories. Enjoyed your work as Sheldon's Nemesis. Thanks for making me laugh.
The thing about us nerds, geeks, dweebs, and dorks. There are more of us than you would imagine. And in recent decades, we've begun to unite as a community, and have found that we're one of the largest communities. There are more of us than there are of you.
When someone wants to diminish you or your tastes, just say "We all like different things. You like some things and I like other things. If you don't like what I like, fine. Smart people respect other people's taste. Be smart and learn to respect other people, and they will respect you back."
