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February 9th, 2010 
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by @KyleeLane
I never really excelled at anything and I have no super intelligent powers. I’m a horrible speller and completely suck at math. I was born too pale, with hair too dark and glasses too thick. This is my claim to geekdom.
When I was little I loved horror books. Freaking loved them. I was in the R.L. Stine Fan Club when I was 8 years old. I was fascinated by horror and science fiction. Thank goodness for grandparents who thought it was okay to let their grandchild watch blood and guts movies. Science fiction, suspense, horror…These things opened my mind. I wanted to believe.
Spending most of my youth trying to fit in, I put away my books and the stories I so dearly loved, trying to be cool…Not going to lie, I did make it to the top of the social ranks. Everyone knew me, girls envied me, guys wanted to date me. Come to find out, I was miserable. When you spend all of your time impressing people, you miss out on a lot.
In high school there was this guy. He could yo-yo like nothing I had ever seen. He knew how to use Power Point. He knew Star Wars. He loved Smashing Pumpkins. He was a complete nerd; a skinny, Hawaiian shirt wearing dork.
Jump ten years and fill in the spaces with our two geeky kids and a lot of learning on my end.
Fact: Geek love is the greatest thing in the world.
Turns out, this boy had more patience than was even fathomable. He helped me grow. Geeks have patience. He knew, eventually, I would find myself again.
He also knows we have to wait at least another ten years before we can buy a DeLorean or make Mandalorian armor. He’s ok with that. So am I, because we will be waiting together.
That’s the thing about love, it changes us; Geek Love, whether it be from your husband, wife; boyfriend, girlfriend; child, parent or whatever; it is one of the greatest, most powerful kinds of love out there. It is all about passion. Priceless, obsessive passion. Just look at some of the things we collect…the lines we stand in for movies, games, ‘toys’…We are willing to wait for the best. (Even if waiting really really really sucks.)
I want to get all girly and say you don’t even understand, but a lot of you do. I know you do. I stalk you on Twitter and I see the ridiculous things you tweet about.
Today, I’m pulling my hair back into a pony tail, putting on my favorite Boba Fett shirt (that I stole from my husband…) and I am going to spend the day reading about what to do when the robotic zombie revolution begins. I am going to just be me.
It was a Geek that gave me this confidence, and it is that same Geek who sits by me and smiles when I tell him we are going to live underground and watch TOS reruns until we get old.
That’s love. That’s Geek love.
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Great article! I understand the “geek” lifestyle and know what it is like to find someone who understands that.
Great great article! I can definitely relate. Love it.
Thank you everyone for reading.
awwww. I totally understand
That was such a loving story.Kylee you and your other half are whole. Everyone should be so lucky to be a geek I was.So you see you take after me. Love you.
Nice one @KyleeLane. I’m about to marry my geek and I couldn’t be happier. We stay in at nights and game together, sit on the deck in the evenings and discuss space exploration and he paints miniatures while I write articles and blog entries.
We don’t always have the same interests but we do have one thing that keeps us together – an understanding that we both love to learn, to explore – and that we don’t care how that makes us look. That’s what makes us geeks. And that’s why geeks are happy together.
well kylee as ur dad i would have never labled u as a geek when u were growing up.it would have been mean it seems .how ever after thinking of it i feel a geeks strongest point is being theirself and most of all a rebal who has her right opinion.but thats only haif of it its how this geek proves her rightness , be it only one day at a time which turns to years. as this course is held it is without a dout amazeing ..i saw it with my folks as their love stood and still stands the test of time .ya they were geeks going against the normal prejustism of their time.(a beaner and a white german) they showed both sides of the tree ya geekness
back in the day.i can only hope to have passed that to you.. yes , i have cause the force is strong with you.i very proud of u 2 say the least. love DAD
SORRY NO SPELL CHECK
Great article! Sometimes people get too caught up in the stereotypes of geeks and interpersonal relationships and gloss over the fact that real geek love is out there.
As a geek girl, I love my geek guy, and couldn’t imagine dating a “norm” who wouldn’t know the Outer Limits from the Twilight Zone.
wow kylee,, i am really impressed! you are so talented and gifted as well as beautiful inside and out. what a treasue you are to your family.. i am and always have been very proud of you.. NEVER change… luv ya, granny
Well hello internet. You just met my family.
Awkward?
Of course it was. That’s what makes me special…♥
Again, thank you EVERYONE for reading! Thank you for your emails, texts & tweets and a SUPER UBER SPECIAL thank you to Kristin (@geekgirls) for building a box I could stand on for a bit. Much, much love.
w00t. I love this article. My geek boyfriend/ I actually went to high school with, but he was uberly popular and I was not. We met at my HD job, and the thing that brought us together was Linux. It’s awesome when interests collide to bring us together. Hold on tight to your geek!
i have to say this put a smile on my face! i too had to rediscover my geek. i wasn’t trying to be popular but i was a damn good cheerleader in high school and college so that automatically put me in a certain group. now, i’m just me all day everyday. it wasn’t geek love from someone else that brought it out. it was geek love for self. but now that i fly my geek flag, i am finding all kinds of men are attracted to me. i’m not hurting for dates. how’s that for geek love! hahaha