I've loved Pokemon since I first started playing it, and back in the day, I had a pretty tight group of friends who loved it too. I went to a magnet school in elementary, so none of my friends were at the middle school I went to. NOBODY talked about pokemon there. I remember I asked this kid in sixth grade that I had sort of made friends with if she liked pokemon, and she stopped talking to me, so since then I pretty much just completely keep it to myself. What I think is funny is that in high school, when HGSS came out, I noticed people walking around with their pokewalkers like, almost concealed but not quite (I did a lot of errand running for my teachers, so I got bored and was real observant of the people around me). It kind of made me laugh. Then I came here to college last year, and it's so weird, because half the people I know just talk about pokemon. I mean, when BW2 came out, and I went to band practice, one of the tuba players literally brought his DS to the field and was complaining to his friend about how he couldn't find a Riolu. For some reason I'm still kind of scared to just say it in the open, but I guess you could say I'm not alone.