How do you get along...

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How do you get along... with other geeks?

Me, personally: Aspies and normally geekish/dweebish people, I can handle.

But if the person is so much of a geek that they can't even see what a total disastrous misfit they are (like the guy I ran into last night); I'm right there with all the NTs - I can't stand to be around them.

What I'm talking about: Last night at a club, while I'm up singing, this guy walks in, walks up to a friend of mine. First thing he says, uncomfortably loudly, is, "Hey, you have a boyfriend here?" (To which she pointed at me, so I got to be her rescuer for the evening...) Then he tells her he's a rocket scientist... and goes on from there to describe how he took the last piece of shrimp from his mother at an all-you-can-eat buffet (wtf?)... totally nonsensical, random attempt at smalltalk... the girl is making pleading eyes at me... when I get over to the table, he starts talking about how he's going to go outside and smoke a joint, and I'm like, "have fun!" (Meaning, of course, "GET LOST!")

Better than other types of people.

There are good geeks and as*hole geeks, just like any other kind of people. I find that I relate better to geeks than most other types, but there are always exceptions.

When on a similar wavelength to me I cope pretty well. When they are more argumentitive and hold onto there ideas as true when blatantly flawed and are generally anal in a fashion worse than me though they can really ruffle my feathers (yes I accept I can sometimes be far to stubborn and carry on an argument too far, usualyl I'm correct, but I won't admit to being wrong, just brush it over)

I probably don't get on with people too like me. Fortunately I haven't met anyone exactly like me. I like geeky. I like to rack the brains of the people who are into something I'm interested in. I don't generally want to be their friend though. They tend to be too intrusive. My obsessions are solitary. I've recently grasped the concept of group interests. These are not as strong as obsessions but something to do with your friends.

Sounds like he was mostly just being a JERK.

When I was in school, I usually spent my free time with other outcasts.

I don't go to school anymore, but I love hanging out with everyone here on WP.

And that guy at the club? He was probably drunk. Or high. Or both...

Sorry to be obtuse and slightly facetious here but what is this national obsession with rocket science? It's all Newton's laws and algebra surely? Now quantum mechanics? There's a proper headf*ck

Unless you live near Cape Canaveral or something.....anyone who walks up to a girl in a club and tells her he's a rocket scientist is probably just a rocket.

Generally speaking I get on better with geeky people (I consider myself to be one!) than with more typical people.

I get along with intelligent people, geeky or not. If they are mean, phony or so out of it they appear to be drunk or stoned, then I don't get along well with them at all.

Only if they're intelligent and geeky, and then the same counts for people who are intelligent and not-geeky-at-all.

well i dont have any friends in real life, as im sure alot of you dont. as you can see im not very good at making friends online either

when i was in school, i had a couple of geeky friends, you know the kind that hang out at the library for lunch, for fear of getting there butt kicked.