I have been thinking about my roleplaying again. I love it and I think I can finally articulate why: I have friends through them that don't give a shit about my neurology.
Throughout my required schooling, I have always been labeled the weird one. I'm the one who couldn't understand a joke, the one who had the entire "Bryant Compendium of Useless World Knowledge" stuck in her head. I'm the one who stayed awake almost a full twenty-four hours to learn HTML just because I was bored one day.
The guys don't care that I'm memorizing the 3.5 MM. I'm not even the one with the most memorized; Dan has that covered.
Now that I've been hanging out with them, I feel great.