aka 'cognitive dissonance'
I know I've gone on about my brain injury -- or at least it feels to me as if I have gone on a fair amount on it. If you're tired of it, you might want to leave now, as I anticipate going on about it even more.
For the last 23 years I've tried to pass myself off as 'normal.' For the last 23 years I've vowed that my injury would not hold me back, and that I wouldn't use it as a crutch when things went wrong. And although I have succeeded in a number of ways, I have felt as if I'd hit a glass ceiling with respect to my own development and life in general.
And I think that ceiling may have just de-cloaked.
It's my brain injury.
I am not normal with respect to non-injured people. But according to the research that rhianwyn has been doing, I'm perfectly normal in many ways, at least with respect to other brain-injured folks.
And I'm not really sure where I'm going with this. But it's difficult when your paradigm starts changing, when the way you've seen the world for a long time suddenly starts altering. And that's where I am right now.
For the last 23 years I've tried to pass myself off as 'normal.' For the last 23 years I've vowed that my injury would not hold me back, and that I wouldn't use it as a crutch when things went wrong. And although I have succeeded in a number of ways, I have felt as if I'd hit a glass ceiling with respect to my own development and life in general.
And I think that ceiling may have just de-cloaked.
It's my brain injury.
I am not normal with respect to non-injured people. But according to the research that rhianwyn has been doing, I'm perfectly normal in many ways, at least with respect to other brain-injured folks.
And I'm not really sure where I'm going with this. But it's difficult when your paradigm starts changing, when the way you've seen the world for a long time suddenly starts altering. And that's where I am right now.