Do you feel people direspect your nerd/geek nature?

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You guys aren't giving a concrete example.

Here, this is one:

The other day at work, we were talking about vacations / days off.

And one was like joking "You're nerd anyway, why would you need vacations, give them to me", and so everyone giggled.

So I am a nerd, I am a being who doesn't need vacations, I am just a machine plugged to another machine .

That was rude and nasty.
The answer that came immediately into my mind - I need vacations so I can work on my secret Doomsday Device and control the world, buahahahahaha
I don't really know if it would be wise to use it in this setting but it's a strategy I employ with quite a success - if someone makes laugh at me, I exaggerate what they say and make my joke of it.

My joke response was more like "they're not for sale dude; they're all mine! " .

Obviously you need days off from them.

I don't find people respect me less for being a nerd in fact people take my interests as a sign of intelligence.

Women sometimes find it a bit baffling but men are mostly positive. Old men are often pleased.

I find people disrespect me when I'm nice and compromise. In every job, the more I covered extra hours in

emergencies the less people thought they needed to even ask me. Unpleasant jobs that I've helped colleagues

with became my jobs. I have been much firmer in my present job and so far I've not had those problems.

It's the same in families, the more you help, the more people see that as your job. People put the effort in where

they think they need to, which is with the person who makes the most fuss or gets angry.

I don't have any , any examples I have are just banter , anyone serious enough to mess with me will get a thick lip

Wow, Boo, that's a bit of a mean comment from your colleague.

I don't think I've had anything said to me quiet as direct as that. Apart from when my sister was a teenager and she thought I was embarrassingly weird. She was brutal. We get a long much better now. I think she may have turned out weirder than me lol.

You give them lip-fillers .

Direct now as I am not talked to as people don’t see me as human.
Only generally do people disrespect me. I hear how they talk about geeks or nerds at work again cause it’s as if I’m not even there.

Interesting,I don't ever recall east Asians called me nerd/geek, they more often call me Playboy/badboy for some reason O_O.
But the locals always assume I am a geek.

Yeah , but I don't believe in using botulinum , I use metacarpophalangeal/interphalangeal treatment

I don't feel like I'm treated as subhuman, per se, because of my nerdy interests, but it certainly doesn't do me any favors either considering I'm more attracted to trendy girls For example: WWE was in Buffalo yesterday and I had a lot of fun hanging out behind the arena with other fans fishing for autographs and pictures with the wrestlers (I met Becky Lynch and the Hardy Boyz) only to go home right after and watch two of my current crushes, UConn women's basketball player Katie Lou Samuelson, and University of Buffalo women's basketball player Hannah Hall play each other in the NCAA tournament.

Despite being more of a dork than a nerd or even geek, I have been teased about being a nerd or geek partly cuz of the way I looked in my glasses, that I had a couple geeky interests, & that I'm socially awkward. Most of the time I was teased others were not doing it to be mean persay bur rather just to make a joke & I would joke about them sometimes too. I wish I was more of a geek or nerd thou so I would have more going for me.

You met Jeff and Matt? You.Are.Freaking.Awesome.

I think respect has nothing to do with these subcultures.

Plenty of people in here may be interested in these things but have you been a hacker? A tech consultant? A developer? Being a professional geek is another matter entirely. Having ASD on top of that is a life sentence for some of us.

Do I expect to ever stop being a loner? Probably not but at least I can be good to women anyway.

Some people really hate what they don't understand. Some people subconsciously hate us the same way.

I am probably more "dork" than "geek" or "nerd."

Yes, I've been "disrespected" for my "dorkiness." I believe some people though I was a nerd---but never a geek. I was never called "nerd" or "dork," though. More colorful names were reserved for me----like "ret*d."

Can you elaborate on the professional part? How does it set us apart from non-pro geek interests?

Also a techie/developer person may have other geeky interests not necessarily related to their IT profession, like sci fi, animes or whatever.