Oof - that article brings back a lot of memories of Slashdot and being a geek back in the day.
This is possibly one of the most infamous of all Slashdot threads - it was a collection of emails detailing how it was to be an outsider in the days after Columbine.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/04/25/1438249/voices-from...
If the stories in this post are interesting to you, a book to consider would be Geeks, by Jon Katz.