Not really, no. They know that I'm active in fandom, but they think it's kinda weird that I should be so absorbed by a kids' book. And they don't really get my interest in fandom as a topic for social and anthropological study, either.

When I tried to expand on fandom as more than Star Trek conventions or teenager-written fiction about a magical world by pointing out the social differences between users of Facebook vs. MySpace vs. LiveJournal, and what it says about the lack of social equality, I got blank looks.

(And my, what a run-on sentence that is!)