When I was little, I was bullied in school a lot.

But when I played games, it felt like the place where I could be accepted.

It was hard to find a place where I felt like I could belong.

And in EverQuest, it felt like I found my family there.

And at some point, I actually was talking more with people in the game than I was talking with people in real life around me.

And I actually had my first boyfriend in EverQuest as well.

I always loved drawing and writing and making my own characters and stories.

But my teachers were always like, you should find a real job, like find something you can make money with.

And I didn't realize that you could make a living with working in games.

I grew up with my father and brother and my father and I shared a computer until I was 12 and on that computer we played the same games so it was an interest that we shared and that we could talk about together.

After school I worked as a chef in several restaurants and I did this for around five years and although I enjoyed it, it was also lonely because I didn't really fit in with the men or the women there.

That was when I found the games education in Breda in the Netherlands.

When I saw those teachers and I saw that they were still making games but also teaching about games, that was when I realized I can do this for a living, I can do this as my career.

This was the first point in my life where I felt like I wasn't the awkward person because everybody around me was kind of awkward and that's why we all enjoyed being together.

2013, that's when I started my games education in Breda.

I was surrounded by a lot of guys because it's still like a lot of guys in games but that's when I met Hannah.