otaku stereotypes

Hmmm I'm not fat. I don't have long hair, it short and blonde. Hmm I Have never seen a yaoi before. Umm I'm nice to everyone always, so I'm not akward. Eh I am a virgin. I don't own any dolls. I am a pervert though. Hmm sterotype has been broken. Mission complete ^•^

(I apologize for the long post. I have a bad habit of writing a lot. (ノдヽ) Feel free to ignore this.) Once I wore a casual dress to school, which is common as a lot of girls wear dresses to school. Everyone assumed since I was wearing something out of the ordinary from my usual attire I must have been cosplaying (I wasn't, and outside of Halloween I've never worn a costume to school). I think Otaku in Japan are seen as adults that won't grow up and are stuck in a child-like mentality of not wanting to work and wanting to play all day. They're stereotypically viewed as shut-ins with social anxiety and possible mental disorders which cause them to do crazy things. People treat them like how people with STDs were treated in the 70s and 80s, as though they had a horrible contagious incurable plague. They don't have to like anime as long as they're obsessed with a particular topic, such as idols or guns or technology. Outside of Japan we seem to use it as a self-defining term similar to how one would describe themself as a jock or prep or goth, except used to mean 'fan of anime' instead. If anyone's interested, "Welcome to the NHK" is a pretty cool series about a stereotypical otaku trying to get out of his shell. There's also an old French documentary on Netflix called "Otaku" (but it's NSFW as there's a hentai/porn portion) which goes into detail explaining otaku life in '80s and '90s Japan.