After a few drinks, Moira made a bet w Gabriel Reyes: If she ever lost to him in a fight, she'd have to print a picture of him on every pillowcase she owns.
Little did she know back then that her HP would get nerfed, and she'd eventually have to face the...
...Reaper cushions.
If you tell neurodivergent people they need to "get comfortable with being uncomfortable" I am putting gravel in your shoes. No you can't take the gravel out. You have to deal with it. Dealing with it makes you a better person. What do you mean "pointless suffering".
Cant believe its been 10 years since Overwatch was released. I wasn't there immediately, took me until summer 2017 to get it. Moira was the first hero release I was present for, and it literally changed my life so drastically idk what life would look like without this character.
Level 1 autism is spending your 20s not understanding why you burn out so quickly at jobs even though your performance is often great.
Then you find out you're autistic & half the world thinks autism is a made-up disorder used as an excuse to be useless.
It's... dark. People don't even know what autism means: sensory issues, distress at changes to routine, repressing stimming at work which is how you relieve stress so now you're even more stressed.
And the big one: DEFICITS IN SOCIAL INTERACTION.
You know how people get jobs through someone they know? You know how people liking you is just as important, if not more important, than being good at your job?
Best of luck if you're autistic 😂
Level 1 autism is an exercise in seeming normal enough that people don't believe you're disabled. The choice is brutal: do you start stimming at work? Do you stop masking? Do you allow your autistic traits to be seen instead of trying & often failing to seem normal?
Because masking burns you out, but it's how you hold down a job for a bit. To lean into autism is to risk being completely unemployable. There is no good choice available.
So you exist in a world where you cannot be yourself, forever questioning if letting the mask slip will ruin you, eaten alive by a performance you must do all day every day until you can't anymore.
Then you see yet another tweet by a person claiming people fake your disorder for gain — what gain? A majority of us unable to hold down full time jobs? A higher risk of suicidal ideation? An inability to relate to our peers since birth?
Allistic people are not famous for their curiosity or reading past the headline. They quite literally have no idea what they're talking about, but their opinions on autistic lives are considered valid by a jury of allistic peers.
You're lazy. You're making excuses. Who melts down from music playing in a store, you definitely not disabled weirdo? 😂
I try not to make autism my identity on here, but for once, I'll let it out.
My proposition for the next Moira short story: a reading of the sacred texts (with updated information) (and explicit detail about her personal life) (and it is clear that her ardor for discovery extends to the learning of new recipes, so those too). #Moira#TheTastesOfOasis
“One must always find the advantage in adversity.” — another /exquisite/ quote that could be the title of Moira’s memoir. I am elated by the affirmation that she leveraged the vanadium theft to her benefit. Sometimes I can feel her smiling in her luxurious Oasis penthouse suite
@GrandeBettina Also pathologisiert man lieber die Tatsache, dass körperliche Erkrankungen den Leuten keine Freude machen, als den Fokus darauf zu setzen, die grundlegende Ursache zu behandeln?
So wie heute in einem Gutachten: Hauptdiagnose Anpassungsstörung. Nebendiagnose ME/CFS.
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@infoluencer Was Bodypositivity sein sollte: Vorurteilsfrei akzeptieren, dass Menschen in verschiedenen Körperformen existieren.
Was Bodypositivity nicht sein sollte: Ausblenden, dass extremes Unter- als auch Übergewicht krankheitsbedingt und ungesund sein kann und das als normal zu verkaufen
today my girlfriend asked me, "moira from overwatch or me?" which is so funny because i had to remind her, “baby you ARE moira from overwatch ". Moira laughed but then she got blurry and the nurse walked in and forced me to take my pills
moira smells like a microbiology lab, formaldehyde, designer perfume (something pleasant for once), that odd hospital air, a bit of metal and a whiff of weed and/or tobacco all mixed up into one
criticising an Autistic person for having narrow interests, being blunt, misunderstanding context, looking away, fidgeting, being over-sensitive and struggling to communicate is the same as criticising a wheelchair user for not walking. Your ableism is exhausting