Don't pretend to know how I feel! I hear the polite words spoken by people who pretend to know. Words like "I understand", "It will get better", "I know what you mean", "I care", and "You're a survivor". |
How could anyone know ? The pain, the fear, the anger, and the inner turmoil. Unless you have been there. You can't know. |
How could anyone know What it's like to survive with a brain injury What it's like to have your life ripped from you in a blink of an eye. What it's like to know you have a brain injury, that will never heal, to know the causes and effects of it all but still not understand why. What it's like to lose portions of your life, your memories, yourself. What it's like to have the words of communication locked away Inside a brain that does not fully work. The words are there, the thoughts are there. Accessing them is the problem |
Noone can fully understand The utter hell of living. Unless you have been there, living with a brain injury. |
So don't pretend to know. You can't even begin to unless you have been there. |
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