The Twitch streamer Aeyvi has spoken emotionally live about false accusations. She describes suffering from a disease that produces stroke-like symptoms. However, not everyone believes this.
Who is Aeyvi? Aeyvi is primarily known as a streamer of The Elder Scrolls Online and Skyrim, but she also regularly shows other games. She has over 5,300 followers on Twitch and is part of the official ESO Streamteam.
She uses streaming not only for gaming but also to raise awareness about her illness. She claims to suffer from dysautonomia, which regularly leads to stroke-like symptoms for her. This is why she also uses a wheelchair.
She already published a video about her illness on YouTube in August 2018.
What happened now? In a stream on February 4, Aeyvi read a tweet live that she had received earlier. In it, an unknown user accused her of faking her illness.
She emotionally defended herself against this statement and broke down in tears. She received a lot of support from her community for this.
Chronic illnesses, however, are not always met with support, as this story shows:
False accusations against Aeyvi
What was she accused of? In the tweet that Aeyvi read, the user accused her of simulating her illness. He wrote:
She [the illness] has it, but can stream again the next day. No one questions that? And her face does not look like someone who has suffered many strokes.
Aeyvi reacted with disbelief to this statement, as the stranger could not judge which muscles she felt and which she did not. The Twitter user wrote further:
Her face is normal. She is paralyzed from the waist down.
There was also shaking of heads at this statement. Aeyvi had previously explained that she was not paralyzed but that the illness forced her to use a wheelchair.
In the further course, the Twitter user then refers to a video in which Aeyvi moves her legs independently:
In the video, she moves her legs without using her hands. Those of you who have eyes in your heads will recognize the truth and the greed. This ESO streamer is just looking for money and attention.
It took 7 years to diagnose the illness
How does the illness restrict Aeyvi? In a second clip, the Twitch streamer explains how bad the illness is for her:
- She is not paralyzed
- Instead, she has dysautonomia, a disease where blood and oxygen can get stuck in the wrong parts of the body and therefore do not reach the brain. This leads to symptoms similar to those of a stroke.
- She did not spend 1.5 years in a wheelchair for fun and did not leave the house.
- It took 7 years for doctors to finally diagnose the correct illness.
Afterward, she agrees with her chat that she should not let herself be provoked and let her counterpart win with such statements. However, she also fights for recognition of her illness, which she has suffered from since the age of 14.
Emotional appeal to the viewers
In the further course, she then addresses her viewers emotionally. She wishes that there would not always be immediate prejudices against those affected:
Just because you are in a wheelchair, does not mean you are automatically paralyzed, nor does it mean that you have to sit in a wheelchair forever.
Some people are paralyzed, some are temporarily paralyzed, some have illnesses that also bind them to the wheelchair without paralysis because they have pain when standing.
Some people have God knows what kind of problems. You don’t know it just by looking at people. That is what I fight for and why I make videos.
The fight against the accusations
What is Aeyvi doing against the accusations? She reports that she has been receiving such direct messages on Twitter regularly lately, presumably from the same person.
She reports the person and simultaneously tries to raise awareness about her illness. This is why she streams and why she will not let herself be defeated by such messages.
For 2020, the streamer has made it her mission to document her illness and raise awareness about how people with chronic illnesses live and how they can be supported.
False accusations on Twitch occur repeatedly. Often they are black sheep like this Halo streamer that lead to such allegations:
