It came from University of Toronto, had a interesting paper that saying “ you may be able to improve your understandings to others, when reading a book with fiction. “
So here I share it with you.

They researched many past researches for relation between fiction and theory of mind and compiled those datas.

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(16)30070-5

What are they saying that...
“ People who reads a fiction especially, literature has an image of negative things such as, lacking self-confidence or unsociable from other people, however, they are not like that, in fact, they are highly sensitive for others and understanding too. “

Moreover, other paper said that it’s not only from the resource that you can get it from a game like...
“ The game with storytelling will increases your sympathies for others. “ in the end.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1948550615578177

Well, there are no mentioning from both papers as “Why people thinks person who likes reading books called geek or nerd, also they are not good at making relationships with others.”