Hello Everyone,
So I thought I would introduce myself a bit more and allow you to get to know me a bit better. I get asked a lot about how I like streaming or why did I start to stream so I thought I might make a blog post about it. First I’ll give you some context about me. I’m a Mom of two children on the spectrum, and a husband who is also on the spectrum. I am a jack of all trades meaning I have a diploma in Woodworking Technology and I partially finished my nursing degree. A part of me still wants to become a nurse one day but right now it just isn’t in the cards. My children also are epileptic and as am I. I have had epilepsy since I was a toddler. It went away during puberty and came back just over a year ago. I was seizure free for 22 years before my seizures came back and I still don’t really know their triggers. I believe one of them is stress.
July 2018, I suffered a brain injury as a result of one of my epileptic spells resulting in various different issues that cause me significant pain if I am not careful. This means I can’t drive for long periods of time, contrasting colours bother me, at one point I couldn’t read for long periods, blue light bothers me especially florescent lighting, exertion, at one point I couldn’t sit at the computer for more than a short period of time, so at this point I was very depressed because I went from being a provider to being unable to get out of bed because of migraines. I also, withdrew from my Nursing degree this past January because I couldn’t handle the program physically at that time. Fast forward to this past June I started to be able to play video games again. So I thought, “I can do this”. If I can do this maybe I could make some money and help provide for my family. Thus started my journey of content creation.
So I started researching, and learning how to stream and improve my content. I started out treating it like my part time job and I have to say something unexpected happened as well. I started to connect with other streamers and as a result I have now started to have people pop into my stream and chat with me. I am always tickled when I have someone to talk with as I am a shut in most of the time due to my various issues. I found a lot of really genuine and wonderful people on Twitch who I can say have started to become my friends. It is nice having people with common interests to talk with about the game I am playing. After we decided to stop streaming World of Warcraft I decided to give Guild Wars 2 a try and have been enjoying that.
Life has been crazy for the last while so I haven’t been able to concentrate on my stream we have been solving other life problems that need to be dealt with. I plan to continue streaming and working towards my goals. The stream gave me purpose, and a sense of connection with other people that I was lacking before. I don’t want to give that up. I am now well enough that I am starting to work again and we are in the process of moving so that has been taking my time and energy. I look forward to the day that I can go back to nursing and finish what I started. I feel as though it is a calling. No matter how difficult the path, I will succeed.
If you have read this far thank you for reading. I bid you take care and good health.
B
Gamers Illogical 