As someone diagnosed with Hydrocephalus and living with a brain injury, this is a sore point, obviously. People don’t necessarily have to say they don’t believe your symptoms; their actions (or even inaction) speak loudly and clear enough. Seeing beyond an invisible illness or injury, is a difficult one, I get it. How can you…
When I wrote We are not faking, I meant what I said. What I didn’t know at the time was how much of a lifeline these words would become. A lifeline not that someone else throws your way but one that you need to remind yourself of, more than just a few times. It’s never…
I read a post on Facebook the other day, in one of the groups I belong to, that just angered me more than anything else. It wasn’t even the fact that there seems to be a general belief that people with Hydrocephalus are faking their symptoms. It was reading a comment from a parent who…
