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76 // World of Warcraft Community Magazine

WOW - MY STORY

By Emsey P. Walker

At 16, World of Warcraft offered a lot to me, fun, a chance to meet new people and
an expansive gaming universe like none I had ever encountered before.

I

’d never previously played a

him play it for the first time, running

parents house there was no way

massively multiplayer online

around the super-dangerous

I could get and play the game for

game so the charm of running

Redridge Mountains. I created a

myself. It was around this time that

around a world where there were

character called Maggie on his

I was diagnosed with an overactive

actually other humans, strangers

account (a human paladin) and

thyroid or hyperthyroidism, and

I had never met and could interact

thoroughly enjoyed every second I

my life was changed considerably.

with, in game, was intoxicating.

got to play her. I even went over to

The condition and the course of

his house when he was at school so

treatment that I was on meant

I could spend time levelling her up.

that my already chaotic adolescent

When I first started playing,
it was due to being fascinated by
my boyfriend at the time and his

We broke up as many young

hormones became even more so

account. I can still remember the

teenagers inevitably do and due to

and a lack of understanding or real

excitement I felt when I watched

a terrible dial up connection at my

support from my friends or teachers

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