A Real Life Geek Girl: Or Why Being Passionate About Something Is The Best Thing Ever

I am a geek girl.

And no, I'm not talking about being a fake geek girl, a wanna-be geek or any other kind of term that is currently doing the rounds.

What I am talking about is being completely and utter passionate about something (or in my case a lot of somethings).

Being a tad obsessive comes pretty naturally to me and I've been a geek girl almost my whole life, though when I was younger the term 'geek girl' wasn't around.  Instead I was a nerd, a dork, an outsider.  None of which ever really bothered me all that much.  Perhaps because my geekdom started quite early.

While most girls played with dolls and had tea parties, I had my head buried in a book reading about dinosaurs, and space, and anything else that got my interest.  And of course I was madly in love with science fiction television, and still am today.

As I got older, I began to realise that some of my interests were just a little unusual, especially for a girl.  Most girls didn't read 20 to 30 books a week, or watched the kind of shows I did.   Music and movies quickly followed, adding to these passions, as did a love of  travel, writing, fanfic and chocolate (trust me it's the answer to EVERYTHING).

I've been lucky with my friends, they are tolerant of my obsessions even if they didn't understand them, though I must admit I learnt fairly early on not to talk about them much because not many people understood my love of Doctor Who and the like.

Once I started high school I hid my obsessions even more and was, pretty much, a closet geek girl.  Being in the closet stayed with me for all of my teenage years and most of my 20s and 30s.  In some ways, being a geek, the older I got was harder as most people would (and still do) give me odd looks when they discover that I *adore* Buffy, Supernatural, Teen Wolf, fanfic, etc.  The sort of things that most consider something that teens are into.

Nowadays, I'm an open book about my geek girl interests and have even found some like minded friends to share them which is even better, though maybe a tad worrisome for others, as we now feed each others addictions by sharing links, fanfic recommendations, and hold online discussions on the merits of such things as Wet Stiles (it's a thing), why a certain character should die a slow and bloody death, and will the new Doctor Who live up to the name.  And yes, Twitter and online writing forums are just another one of my addictions.

So if you're like me and love something passionately, then celebrate it with me, because being passionate about something is absolutely the best thing ever.