Me and my brother have attended for years at various uk conventions and now my teenage daughter also comes along. I have work colleagues who take the pee about my hobby, and I suppose it is a hobby to some of us. They laughed when I said how much I’d paid to meet MJF but unfortunately that’s the mentality of some people.
The first couple of years I went, and with being a bit shy I found it difficult to kinda chat to the guests, but in the more recent years I’ve had no such problem and I find I’m enjoying the events more, although my bank balance doesn’t.
In the end, everyone in life is different and we all have different likes and dislikes, if we didn’t then life would be pretty boring.