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My Pride as a gamer and why GDQ means so much to me
In writing this donation i am full of so many emotions, i am 21 years old and i got my first taste of videogames when i was just a year old, I never really fit in at school being one five minority students though i am a native born American with english as my first language and the 3rd generation in this country i was ridiculed by classmates and put into english language learning programs where they spoke to me(as a kindergartener) in a language i barely spoke or understood. Though my parents tried to help it never felt like enough my escape came in videogames, the one place i knew that i was always good at, where i was better than my classmates and my race and background never mattered, only how good i was skills which you could never fake or buy. As i grew up i was ridiculed again for playing videogames being told that the one thing i was good at was childish, made people violent, rotting my brain and a waste of my time. I felt like i could never win, when ever i played i felt shame in the back of my head feeling like i was wasting myself playing videogames and over time i finally grew out of the shame but only after years of feeling it and hating myself. When i found GDQ i was filled with so much pride because the thing i felt so much shame for was being used to do such great things and i could finally point to people and say that videogames werent just for children, needlessly violent or a waste of time, because of events like GDQ and games like Hellblade i feel like i never have to feel shame for playing videogames again and why ive been trying to spread this amoungst the people i know because this event to me means more than just rasing money for cancer research or doctors it also means so much to people who have been in my situation and seeing events like this mean the world to me. |
| Run | Name | Amount |
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| Mass Effect Any% | Ashley vs Kaidan -- Ashley | $25.00 |