Are you a stereotypical "geek"?

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Not a stereotypical geek, but a geek.

I basically don't watch any TV or Movies, don't wear glasses, and don't tend to play video games, which gets rid of much of what is stereotypical.

On the other hand, I'm a sci-fi/fantasy fan, board gamer (german style), roleplayer, who went to a technical college and double majored in math and computer science. I met my boyfriend for the first time at a weekend on Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, and got to know him in a science fiction and board gaming club. In high school the one club I participated in was the robotics team. Above all else I want to learn.

Agreed.

I suppose I am somewhat geeky. I am into fantasy and science fiction and computer games of those genres...only ones where I can make my own character, though.
I quite rarely like books/movies/tv shows/etc of genres other than those.
My parents have called me a geek several times. But I don't go around telling people about my interests though that is the aspie stereotype - so the average person that knows me probably wouldn't call me a geek because they wouldn't know what I'm into.

What's a 'stereotypical freak'?

Hmm, I showed some of the geek characteristics over the time. I think I'm more of the nerdy stereotype, if it makes sense.

- I had problems with personal hygiene in the past, I have never had a sense of fashion, I like to wear the same clothes, don't like to shop for clothes, need help.
- I loved to play games on C64 but was too clumsy to really be good at it. Now I'm out of computer games altogether.
- I programmed C64 and Plus4 in assembler besides basic, but stuck at basic level
- I learned to program in Borland's Turbo Pascal, later Visual Basic VBA for Access and Excel, I know a little SQL and HTML too
- I'm always called to fix computer problems in my family despite I'm not very good at it. I hate it.
- I was really good at math and physics in elementary school and high school.
- However, I have degree(s) on the field of economics too

- My first "real" reading experiences are bound to sci-fi, centered around two outstanding writer, Lem and Asimov. I still love sci-fi.
- I like Star Trek DS9, I adored Star Wars when I was a teen.
- I don't watch television any more, nevertheless.

Tip: Mediating between computer geeks and financial folks and/or CEOs would be a good job opportunity.

I would say I am. I'm not particularly interested in Sci-fi or computer programming, but I do have an interest in classical music, pre-20th century art and I dress like someone from the 30s, which is enough to qualify as a 'geek', I suppose.

I've never actually been a geek. I've always got obsessed with certain people, and the people weren't geeky people. And most Aspies seem to wear glasses, but I'm one of the 5 percent of Aspies who don't, and I don't plan to wear glasses until I'm well in my 40s because I don't want to fit the stereotype. (I know NTs wear glasses too, but it just seems that almost every Aspie wears glasses, and very few Aspies don't. Most older people wear glasses, but I'm talking about young Aspies, or older Aspies who wore glasses all their life). If the worst come to the worst, I would wear contacts. But I don't need them yet.

Otherwise - no I am not a geek. I know I'm on the computer a lot, but aren't most young people these days sit on their computers/laptops? It's a common thing now. I go on Youtube a lot and look up songs. I go on Facebook to look at any updates of my friends/family. I go on WP of course, which is not geeky to be a member of a forum. I sometimes go on Google and just search around. I go on media player and listen to all sorts of music. All that doesn't sound geeky.

So no, I don't consider myself a geek.

I'm prettu geeky. To the point where geeky people who are in normal age ranges for geeky people think I'm too much trouble to associate with.

No.
..not logical at all, pretty much failed highschool and college math classes
I rely on intuition almost 100%
Have very poor short-->mid-term memory
Also I don't wear glasses either dunno where you got that one Joe90
Don't know much about computers but probly more than most in general
I suppose the geeky thing about my life is i spend most of it as a recluse or alone
in some way or another and that involves some interest or the computer..
And the computer is very addicting..
And even tho I was very good at english I don't bother with being ocd and if i had it my way id be talking in prose stanzas not paragraph blocks..

I suppose what makesme "geeky" are my eccentricities which I'm not sure is an AS or a recluse/neurotic thing
Because I have met people *more* autistic than me who are NOT as eccentric as I am... but *MORE* geeky than i am...
Then I must assume some eccentricities are caused by something else
But anyways I suppose what makes me eccentric but not 'geeky' is my dress style among other things
My personal eccentricity is more fantastical than 'geek' 'logical' I suppose...
That would be more equated with a schizotypal personality...
hm..

Joe90 Wrote

Really? 95% of aspies wear glasses? I have met about 15 aspies in my life, and only 2 of them wore glasses. It is possible that some of them wore glasses for reading, or that some of them had contact lenses in and I didn't know. But my experience must be far outside the statistical norm if this is true, and I myself don't wear glasses either.

On the geek subject, I've always disliked sci-fi and star trek, was extroverted and rebellious at school, and used to truant all the time and got crap grades, and I don't like many computer games.

But on the other hand, I went on to college and did better and now I have a maths degree, and I am obsessed with the few computer games that I do like such as silent hill, and I am currently developing an obsession with game of thrones, so I guess I have some geeky aspects to me, but no-one as ever called me a geek, and I certainly have never thought of myself as one.

Yes, but not stereotypical.
I don't play video games - I'm particularly rubbish at some games, expecially driving, as I end up off the track all the time.
I like sci-fi and will watch any sci-fi movie that happens to be on TV, but it doesn't constitute a big part of my life.
Although I wasn't IT, the staff on my floor were all told that they had to come to me with IT problems, in the first instance. I had to check them out first for user idiocy, before they contacted the help desk with a fault. I also taught myself how to design databases, to a high level.
I wear glasses, no make-up, comfy clothes and shoes. If I find my hair's a bit frizzy in the morning, I wear it in a neat bun. I always like my hair to be nice, as it's so noticeable. If I let it do as it pleases (it grows up and out), I'd look like a typical mad scientist and I did look like this as a teenager - not a good look, especially for a girl.
I don't have a large collection, except for a couple of shelves of miniature porcelain dolls and fantasy figures (fairies, elves, etc) and I'm not obsessed about it.

I read over that on wikipedia

This is not how the majority of people see me.

But this is what the majority of people assume if they don't know me but have learnt that I have a diagnosis of AS. It's a bit troublesome sometimes, though I bet this stereotype can have its advantages at other times.



I'm certainly impaired but I'm not perceived as obsessed with intellectual pursuits.

People who don't know me like to think I'm slow because they can't imagine someone being obviously different and having speech and language problems not being intellectually challenged. A fair amount of people associate intelligence with normalcy still.



I'm certainly called detail-orientated and pedantic when I'm not called scatter-brained!

Sorry - it's just that most members on WP seem to state that they wear glasses, and in a lot of AS documentries I've seen them wear glasses.

I am definitely a geek.
I get really REALLY excited if I think one of my coding projects might just take off.
Or I get excited when I have a project to code.
Don't know about you... But I wolud call that geeky

Yeah it is true computer careers tend to attract us like an illuminated sweater would attract moths.

I have glasses that I wear only while playing video games or sometimes while watching shows/movies. I don't wear them while driving, and I never wear them while I'm out in public. I don't use contact lenses either.