Overwatch

Since around mid-May in 2016, I have had agoraphobia so severe it was difficult to leave my home. As the months went on, I went from occasionally leaving my house to leaving maybe four times a month. I had very few friends and only my fiancee was physically in my support system. However, on May 24, 2016, the video game “Overwatch” [...]

In a letter to a fan, Overwatch game director Jeffrey Kaplan confirmed that Symmetra, a character in the popular first-person shooter video game, is on the autism spectrum. “I’m glad you asked about Symmetra. It was very astute of you to notice that she mentioned the spectrum in our comic,” Kaplan wrote. “Symmetra is autistic. [...]