How Video Games Keep Me Sane

Kitty J
5 min readJan 17, 2021

Especially during a worldwide pandemic with social distancing.

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I remember my first foray into MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games, for those not familiar with the terminology).

After a long, boring work day in fast food, I walked home because at this point in my 19 years, I wasn’t driving yet. On the way home, I stopped at a store and remember picking up Guild Wars…

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Kitty J

Autistic. Parent. Writer. Accountant. Abuse Survivor. Dealing w/cPTSD, hEDS & POTS. Always learning & questioning. A quiet human slowly reparenting herself.