Twitch streamer breaks down after \u201cdisgusting\u201d attack over disability Twitch: Aeyvi \/ TwitchTwitch streamer Aeyvi has hit back at \u201cdisgusting\u201d trolls online, after she was the target of an attack over her disability, which causes stroke-like symptoms, and people saying she\u2019s faking it. Aeyvi is a popular Elder Scrolls Online streamer, working her way up to secure a partnership with the game\u2019s developer ZeniMax, to help promote the game. She also uses her stream to increase awareness of her disability, dysautonomia. While it\u2019s not the only condition she suffers from, dysautonomia has left the British streamer with a vastly reduced quality of life, suffering from stroke-like attacks on a weekly basis. Her status has made her the target of online trolls, who suggest the streamer is faking her disability. However, one recent attack on Twitter left her in tears, describing the perpetrator as \u201cthe most disgusting human being I\u2019ve ever come across in my life.\u201d Reading out the tweet, which has since been deleted by the user, on February 4, Aeyvi broke down in tears. \u201c\u2018Number three, is she disabled or have you paid her to act,\u201d the tweet said. \u201c\u2018\u2026who has had\u2026but can stream the next day. No one questions this, plus her face is not the face of someone who has had many strokes. Read more: Why is #StopJayStation trending? – She continued reading, before cutting the tweet off halfway to straighten the facts. \u201c\u2019Her face is normal. She is paralyzed from the waist down\u2013\u2018 no I\u2019m not.\u201d \u201cThis person clearly didn\u2019t read the description of anything,\u201d she added. \u201cOh my god, this is why you don\u2019t pick up your phone. Why are people so vicious?\u201d Aeyvi took a break from her game to process what the tweet said, and was \u201ctotally thrown\u201d by the out-of-left-field remarks. Sadly, that wasn\u2019t the only message the user had for her, with the comments continuing in a thread. \u201c\u2018In the video, she moves her legs without using her hands to move them. I think not. Those who open your eyes can clearly see them as they truly are due to greed. These ESO stream team members who simply seek money and attention\u2019,\u201d she read. The comments left the streamer feeling \u201csick\u201d and on the verge of tears, before she lashed out at her attacker, trying to correct the record. \u201cI\u2019m not paralyzed, I\u2019ve never told anyone that I\u2019m paralyzed. I have dysautonomia, so this is what causes the stroke-like appearance because the blood and the oxygen gets stuck in the wrong part of the body so it can\u2019t get to my brain, therefore my brain acts as if it\u2019s having a stroke,\u201d she said. \u201cI can\u2019t believe someone would write that. I don\u2019t spend a year and a half in a wheelchair for fun. I don\u2019t not leave the house for fun. I don\u2019t have to justify every illness that I have to every single doctor until I found the right one after seven years who knew what was wrong with me. \u201cI know that I\u2019m allowing these people to win by being upset by this, but I find it disgusting that anyone would ever fake an illness because I feel in chronic pain and I\u2019ve had my young life ruined by illness. My first operation was at 14. \u201cThis is why I make the videos, and someone who is that despicable\u2013I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m trying to not let it get to me but I\u2019m so angry. The streamer apologized to her viewers for reading it, although her community comforted her throughout the entire ordeal. However, it doesn\u2019t change the fact that attacks like these are a regular occurrence for Aeyvi. She mentioned she had received aggressive DMs from random Twitter users in the past few weeks, and said it\u2019s likely the same person on a different account. While Aeyvi can only report the tweets and move on, she is hoping to raise awareness for her illness, as well as for others with disabilities, about their hardship. The attacks don\u2019t get any easier to bear over time, but with every stream and every video she hopes to educate someone about her disability, and that\u2019s all anyone could ask for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch streamer breaks down after \u201cdisgusting\u201d attack over disability Twitch: Aeyvi \/ TwitchTwitch streamer Aeyvi has hit back at \u201cdisgusting\u201d trolls online, after she was the target of an attack over her disability, which causes stroke-like symptoms, and people saying she\u2019s faking it. Aeyvi is a popular Elder Scrolls Online streamer, working her way up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}