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You know that kid in sixth grade who played Pokemon cards with his three friends at the lunch table? The one who, in eighth grade, would hook up his Gameboy Advance to his friends' at lunch and play Megaman Battle Network? The guy whom everyone asked for help from in programming class? I was that dude. High school was not fun for that dude.

On the one hand, I appreciate that society has moved so much in the past few years that I'm now getting video game recommendations from people in the shop I work at. Things that I had been long mocked for in school are now considered mainstream. On the other hand, I am bitter that I still got mocked for something that everyone else gets to have for free now.

It reminds me of how my mother feels about her hair. It was red all of her life, back when having red hair got you mocked, called things like carrot top. Then she gets older and when red hair is suddenly considered cool, her hair starts turning brown and grey. She dyed it for a few years, insisting it was only fair.