Find Your Nerd Community

Where to Meet Nerds, with Jose

🔎 Finding your community can sometimes be challenging. Even within the same hobby, different groups may be polar opposites. Even within the Argentine Tolkien Association, the online forum didn’t always fit with the association 🧩

In this episode, I bring Jose back to talk about how we found a place where each of us felt we belonged 😌 Not feeling like we fit in with most people around us growing up, in the Argentine Tolkien Association we found those who made us feel appreciated and welcomed. Even if we didn’t “fit the popular norm.” 🥰

🧪 Sometimes, finding your people may take trial and error. Some communities have a demographic younger or older than what you’d like, or the people might have values that don’t match yours, or they may simply not be a good match. Whatever the case may be, it’s worth it to keep looking until you find your group. Even if that’s just a subgroup within a larger community 👯

❓ So here’s a question for you: If you happened to go to the Argentine Tolkien Association, who do you think you’d like to hang out with? The official members, or the forum? 🧐