03/31/2026
❤️I have pictures on my fridge to remind me that I’ve made it through the toughest times of my life. It’s a way I honor my inner children.
This one in particular is memorable because this was me recovering from a traumatic brain injury that put me in a coma and had me hospitalized for a month. I had a tough time navigating my brain injury journey.
It’s an invisible disability, no one sees. Coupling my neurological symptoms, with my childhood trauma often exacerbates the situation. My speech was impacted by the accident but because of childhood trauma, if anybody looks upset while I’m talking my communication gets stunted. Another change was that I noticed I could no longer filter out everyday noise. My nervous system was always working making sure there was no danger. This made me fatigue quickly, I needed extra time for everything and needed to move slow in all forms. The worst part is that I looked 100% fine.
This “accident” since the age of 16 has made me feel so different such that it made me grow up faster than my friends. It’s made me see beyond the present, aka anxiety. It made me feel a lot and given me the gift of clairsentience — my feelings alone are what allows me to know. I could hear what others couldn’t, I began to see what others didn’t. That’s when my 6th sense came through, but I had no idea what this was at the time.
March is month and I wanted to share my story with you. My brain injury journey is still taking place. Sometimes I find myself feeling judged and misunderstood, I read someone else’s story and how the described it as telling more people about their injury and coming out of the closet. I feel the same way.
I’m wired differently ya’ll, I’ve had a 🥰