Wow... real tear jerker.
My niece - a very well-balanced geek girl who had some good geek friends in high school, put it really well, in terms of teasing. She said "I don't care what the cool kids are into. Why does it matter to them what the geek kids are into? We don't want to be part of their group. We just want to be left alone."
Of course, that requires having found a few soul mates, but when I heard her say that, I thought "She's got a future ahead of her, that girl!"
