Kyle McMahon Is A Nerd!

Kyle McMahon Is A Nerd!

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Kyle McMahon Is A Nerd!

Kyle’s latest article for the Huffington Post is titled “My Name Is Kyle, and I’m a Nerd“. In the article, Kyle discusses his life long love of “nerdy” things that he hid during high school and what it took to embrace it.

When I was little, I was a serious comic book fan. I was obsessed with Batman and X-Men and all of the many spin-off titles and one-shots that came along with it. I was also completely and totally obsessed with The X-Files. I was entirely too young to watch it at first, so I would sneak off to record it and stealthily watch it later. I participated in forum chats for X-Philes discussing the show and collected anything that had the iconic logo on it. I was what you’d call a nerd.

By the time I had gotten to high school, I had purposefully stopped going to the comic book store each week. In fact, I had stopped going to the comic store at all. I packed my comic books away in the attic and aimed for a social life in high school. I was so afraid of the “nerd” stigma that I had consciously made a choice to put that side of me away forever. I wanted to sit at the “cool table” in the lunch room. Too many of my formative years had been spent watching Screech get beat up in old 
Saved By The Bell reruns to destine myself for the humiliation that I was certain would come should anyone find out about my nerdy likes.


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