Wil Wheaton's Advice For Nerds and Geeks Being Bullied

During the Denver Comic Con 2013, a girl was asking Wil Wheaton if he was bullied for being a nerd. He delivered a good advice. He didn't just spoke to the girl, he addressed this to everyone else. I was also bullied from being different because I was mild-mannered and nerdy.

 

I don't get high grades like those whiz kids but I am a thinker. I do things a regular teenager doesn't do. I like to read mystery novels like Sherlock Holmes and comic books and I like watching Star Trek.

 

But this is what I endured and not even the faculty advisers I had did not do anything. And they wonder why I didn't get high grades. Probably because teachers have a lot of problems themselves and they don't have time to be advisers. Teachers are not really paid well so I can understand if they don't have time to mentor.

 

Bullying is a product of survival. The concept of the strong will survive and the weak shall fall is the basic idea. Sometimes, the bullied tends to become a bully too. Just so happens I am one of those weaklings that didn't like sports. But it was the geeks who has the last laugh.

 

It was geeks and nerds who founded Microsoft and Apple. It was a geek who designed Facebook. It was geeks and nerds who designed the games we enjoy in mobile devices, game consoles and computers.

 

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