I always thought I was normal playing video games, watching cartoons and listening to indie music. Apparently people, even in the tech aged 21st century still have their ignorant bigoted heads up their asses. I'm 33 and I can't find anything about the decades of my anxiety as it pertains to me. I have gotten mixed signals my whole life. One day someone says it's normal to like X activity. Another person or different media outlet will say no it isn't normal to like X activity. Less than a 3rd of video game players are kids and the average player is 34 and the demographic only gets older and broader every year. Who doesn't like Archer or Pixar films? Iron Man, Spiderman and Batman killed at the box office! Radiohead make The Beatles sound like amateurs when it comes to musicianship and song writing and I love The Beatles! I don't know what a nerd is, they don't exist, especially in the information age. Everything man-made in this world is the work of intellectuals. People wouldn't be building cars for example if it weren't for scientists who invented artificial rubber, advanced metals and composites and the battery, combustion engines and on and on. It wasn't jocks that dreamed up architecture, electricity and modern medicine. So why do I feel like a nerd if the term is pure fiction? Why, in all the social anxiety books, websites and psychology research on anxiety is this problem not addressed? Why isn't there any cognitive behavioural therapies designed specifically to overcome this specific type of low self esteem?