I don't think geek interests is helpful for Aspie,

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Football...Do you mean American football (I'm American, and I still don't get it...) or Soccer...what the rest of the world calls football? 'eh...I like field hockey...

And the other 2. I'm a virgin and I'm 22 had any alcohol...and that's not gonna change (The alcohol thing, not the virgin thing) So I guess I'm kinda screwed then, huh?

My number one interest in school (and still now...) was Herpetology. (Study of reptiles and amphibians) I was the freaky frog girl

Depends on your friends as everyone else is saying. I'd personally would rather not have friends than have to discuss things that are dull just to have them.

I agree completely with this.

With the topic title "I don't think geek interests is helpful for Aspie" I wouldn't agree. Granted, most NTs don't really care about the history of computers, or chess, or string theory, but there are elements they are interested in... mainly ones that benefit them I've found.
I do admin type jobs / general office work, and I find that my computer knowledge is very much welcomed when I show someone a quicker way of doing something, or a trick to do something they didn't think was possible.

I'm into Routemasters and similar Buses. Would you consider that to be Hip, or Geeky?

Ding! Ding!

Geek = word created by people who know little or nothing at all to make them feel better by attacking the person who knows alot, Geek is just another word people have came up with to make others feel down..

Most people welcome us with problems with they technology... Just the people not worth knowing who say the Geek stuff unless they been sarcastic...

Anyway better to been a geek than a clueless person sat infront wondering how to turn something on these day's "" Call help center:- No 1 problem solved - Have you checked that your hardware is pluged into the power? "" --- Caller "" oh how silly of me no it's not pluged in ""

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To quote from The New Hacker’s Dictionary, a computer geek is “one who eats (computer) bugs for a living. One who fulfills all the dreariest negative stereotypes about hackers: an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. Cannot be used by outsiders without implied insult to all hackers. A computer geek may be either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker in larval stage. Also called ‘turbo nerd’ or ‘turbo geek.
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The sort of person who would get really excited at the prospect of using a text editor on a 900
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Geek as defined by the people who are actually geeks is a compliment. It implies intelligence and usually a good sense of humor as well.


Me, I'm proud to be a geek!! !!

Did not know we referred to each other as Geek's as geek is just a less form of the word nerd – be like a black guy referring to each other with the “n-world” – or people who are very religious been “bible basher’s “ & so on… then I guess football people can be called “ ball munches “ as a new word for describing a person who knows above average about football…

I really don't agree and will leave it at that because I'm in the mood just to go off on someone.