For years, my injuries went undiagnosed. The symptoms — memory, emotional regulation, impulsivity, fatigue, sleep — were read as addiction, mental illness, and personal failure. The systems around me didn't know how to identify what I was actually living with.
Education, recovery, and professional training changed that. The patterns finally had language. What had been treated as moral failure could be understood through brain injury, trauma, and survival biology.
I do this work now because I know what it costs when brain injury is missed — from the inside, and from inside the systems trying to respond.
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