Wil Wheaton: His heart-warming advice for bullied nerds
Wil Wheaton: How did the actor handle a question about being bullied as a child? Check out Wil Wheaton's response and how one mom dealt with a similar situation.
Wil Wheaton: How did the actor handle a question about being bullied as a child? Check out Wil Wheaton's response and how one mom dealt with a similar situation.
Wil Wheaton's early claim to fame was playing a kid 鈥� a bit of nerd, actually 鈥� on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" television series.
Today, he blogs, appears at Comic Con events, and has a sporadic role, as himself, on "The Big Bang Theory," a comedy based on nerds.
In short, Wheaton knows the world of geek 鈥� and the pain of bullying.
So, it's not too surprising that a video of his heart-warming response 鈥� at Denver's Comic Con 2013 鈥撀� to a question about being bullied is going viral. Here's what he said, in part:
Here's how one mom handled a similar situation, when her gifted son returned home from preschool after being called a nerd:
She did the same with Barack Obama, noting thing that nerdy guy became president. So, she said her son was in good company. The next day, when he came home from school she asked what had happened with Ricky, the bully. He replied that Ricky had called him a nerd again. What did her son do?
"I just slapped him on the back and told him I am a nerd. I also told him I'd be happy to employ him later in life," he said with a smile.
Nerds rule.