Surround me with Terry Pratchett books, DC Comics or Judge Dredd mega-zines and put me in a Games Workshop and I feel very much at home.
But I have never felt quite so comfortable as during our family trip to Comic Con at the weekend.
We'd taken our Who-mad daughter on an early festive treat to be part of an evening audience with David Tennant and Matt Smith - arguably two of the best Doctors.
We dressed in character, we chuckled at dweeby references and we wished and wished to win a raffle prize that would get us on stage with The Doctor(s).
Sadly wishes weren't enough - and despite the massive temptation we stayed in our seats as I'm pretty sure running wildly through the packed room and launching ourselves at David and Matt would have been very much frowned upon.
But not winning didn't matter. The room was full of geeky-but-proud people doing their geeky-but-proud things and it all made for a lovely evening.
Having spent my younger years worrying about whether or not my interests were cool enough, it was so nice for my daughter to see that it is okay to like what you like.
If only I'd had a Tardis when I was 13 to be able to travel to that evening, it would have saved a lot of unnecessary fretting.
:: Doctorin' the Tardis by The Timelords (KLF)
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