#traumatic brain injury

[nightmaretour]

Anyway, people with brain damage I love you. People who have had strokes I love you, especially if you're told you were "too young" to have one. People who acquired your brain damage by less common means such as infection, lack of oxygen at birth or degenerative disease, I love you. People with moderate and severe brain damage, I love you. People who lost their sight or hearing or ability to speak because of their brain damage, I love you. People who have paralysis from their brain damage, I love you. People with amnesia and severe cognitive issues from their brain damage, I love you. People with rare and unusual symptoms from their brain damage, I love you.

You are not a punchline, you haven't lost your humanity, your thoughts and opinions are as valuable as anyone else's. We deserve respect.

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[chaoticautie]

As someone who is somewhat of a “veteran” of the online ND community, I’m disappointed in the lack of positivity and love for lesser known diverse cognitive conditions, and the opposing abundance of posts about “cures” or outdated criteria or treatments for those conditions. So, without further ado, I want to say hello to anyone with any of the disorders I’m listing, and give them the love and support that hardly anyone else in our community has… Shoutout to:

People with Down syndrome

People with Fragile X

People with William’s syndrome

People with dyslexia

People with dyspraxia

People with dyscalculia

People with dysgraphia

People with Prader-Willi syndrome

People with PANS or PANDAS

People with aphasia

People with a TBI (traumatic brain injury)

People with chronic/early onset mental illnesses

People with cerebral palsy

People with FASD or were otherwise disabled via other substances in utero

And many, many more I may have forgotten to list (but still support and love, I will add more to my list)

You are all beautiful and wonderful, and you all deserve so more love, appreciation, acceptance and support. You are just as neurodiverse as the rest of us, and your voices deserve to be heard and amplified.

I love you all ❤️

[positivelyqueer]

give love to people with traumatic brain injury, acquired brain injury, stroke, neurological condition, worsening mental health, trauma, PTSD and all other brain based conditions that make you feel conflicted about your identity. About whether or not you’re the ‘same person’ you were before your injury or illness. People constant evolve and change but can be more difficult when changes more sudden, pronounced, and noticed by others. I hope you are doing well and are able to find some peace, support and love.

[anexperimentallife]

[gayaest]

Jiayi • 19 years old • she/they • TBI

Strabismus • Paraplegia ♿️💚⭐️

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[ieatratsforbreakfast]

Because is AAC awareness month, and most conversations center autistic AAC user, want to say happy AAC awareness month to:

people who use because of severe fatigue

people who use because of TBI/brain damage

people who use because they are recovering from stroke

people who use because they just not like talking

people who use because of throat pain/pain in vocal cords

people who use because of other neurodivergence than autism

people who use because of apraxia

people who use because of I/DD

people who use because like it better than verbal communication

AAC awareness month celebrates everyone who use AAC, for any reason.

[noagskryf]

Bloody hell i wish i could just drink a cup of water without spilling half of it down myself

And bonus points if ableist fucks didn't laugh about it

[technicolortrenchcoat]

I don't think people without memory loss realize how truly devastating it is and how it changes everything about how you live

They don't realize that the memory loss can be as disabling as to require you to keep a chart of daily activities to check off because you literally cant remember if you did them.

They don't realize that you literally cant graduate from higher education, you cant remember things for long enough.

They don't realize how hard it is to find employment when remembering new instructions is difficult.

They don't realize that you're taking photos and videos and collecting mementos and trinkets and hoarding them because without them the memories literally do not exist for you.

They don't realize that you are grieving every moment that you want to remember, as you are living it, because you know you wont remember it. You know you wont be able to go back to it the way other people can.

They don't realize it even chases you into your sleep. I have the same recurring nightmare every night, and have for years, and it's about losing my memories. Never being able to get them back.

I don't think people without memory loss realize how truly devastating it is and how it changes everything about how you live

even your dreams

[longreads]

What do you do when they tell you that you'll never race again? You run farther than you ever have before. Our latest Atavist Magazine excerpt highlights Todd Barcelona's recovery from a traumatic brain injury.

On the afternoon that changed his life, Todd was driving home from work in his sky blue 1994 GMC Sierra truck. He had purchased it used and lowered the suspension so it sat closer to the ground. It did not have airbags.

Todd approached the intersection of Austin Peay Highway and Old Brownsville Road heading north. A Shell gas station, fields of crops, and stands of trees filled his view. The light ahead turned yellow, and he continued through the intersection. A gray Honda Accord driving south made a left at the light at the same time, failing to yield the right of way. It smashed into Todd’s truck almost head-on.

Visit Longreads to read the full excerpt.

[pr0cyonid]

It took 10 years for a neurologist to finally fix the headaches from my car accident.

10 years to find out that the problem wasn't my break - it was my neck.

10 years to find out I'm hypermobile and dozens of specialists and brain scans were pointless and useless.

I feel like I have my life back, but I can't help feeling like I missed so much time being sick.

[s1yeye]

people seem forget nonverbal semiverbal speech unreliable speech loss all can be caused by things not autism outside of autism. kuru i me is not nonverbal semiverbal self, but body have somewhat frequent speech loss, and many alters (like self) speak weird funny or not speak at all. is mostly part of us our schizophrenia and brain damage and ID. we autism autistic too, but autism tend cause more words speak hyperverbal lot lot lots words spill out ramble off, rather than hard to speak hard make sentence hard words or no at all.

this post, want say hello and i see you to others with schizospec or brain damage or ID who not speak or struggle speak some way because of it. you welcome here, is your community too. ^_^

[nightmaretour]

"Brain damage" only sounds like a harsh and offensive way to describe brain injuries because people constantly use it as an insult. It's a totally neutral descriptor of what it is. I have brain damage. My brain is damaged. It's not ableist to call it that, it's ableist to call people you don't like brain damaged because you think it's an inherently bad thing to be.

(Yes abled bodied neurodivergents, that includes you)

[sweaters-and-silly]

Traumatic brain injuries with memory issues make for great angst fics but I feel like there are funny stories in there too. Like everyone I know, myself included, who has cared for someone with a TBI or stroke or other brain issue has some fucked up but funny story they tell about their person.

But since I have no real time to write a funny Buck memory loss fanfic so here’s a scenario instead!

Scenario: Buck has a tbi and has issues forming short term memories temporarily. (Those pathways can heal, I’ve seen it happen.)

Jee sits with Buck and tells him the same joke multiple times because he laughs every time.

Eddie offering to get Buck a rowing machine (to practice his stroke.)

Chimney puts a doctored photo of Bobby holding Buck as a baby in his hospital room just to see if he notices.

Tommy just keeps showing him pictures of cats he wants to get until Buck starts asking when they’re going to get a cat.

Or the flip side:

Buck keeps calling Connor and asking for things because he has that number memorized from years ago and Connor only has Eddie’s number so he calls Eddie with these request to get him this stuff which turns out is just Buck getting stuff for Chris while they hang out.

Buck delays Tommy from leaving by asking for his kiss goodbye, getting a couple extra kisses because he “forgot” the first few.

Buck keeps asking Maddie to tell him stories about her life because he loves hearing her talk about how happy she finally is. So she indulges him even though he remembers the stories.

[anexperimentallife]

[gayaest]

Next of the first years for my paravolley AU is: Tsukishima 🏐🤍

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