Chloe White
\nWalk for Thought Blog Post
\n11.3.2015 !
\nWhat did you learn about brain injury? !
\nWhen thinking about brain injury, I often think about people who have become severely
\ndebilitated and who can no longer function or care for themselves. I believe that this image
\nreadily comes to mind because this is often what is portrayed in the media. When reading the
\nnews or watching TV, the stories that are most often published are the ones which have the most
\nhorrific results. However, this year at the Brain Injury Alliance\u2019s annual Walk for Thought I had a
\nvery different experience.
\nAt the Walk for Thought, there were two different T-Shirts being handed out: yellow and
\norange. The yellow shirt stood for survivors, and the orange shirts were given to everybody else.
\nI was amazed at how many yellow shirts were given out. An overwhelming amount of survivors
\ncame out to the walk, as well as family members, friends and caretakers. I was surprised that so
\nmany of them seemed, for lack of a better word, normal. More than once I was surprised to be
\nhanding a yellow shirt to someone who I had assumed was a caretaker. (Disclaimer: I am not
\nsaying that although some survivors seemed \u201cnormal,\u201d they are not dealing with debilitations
\nevery day).
\nTo sum up, what I really learned about brain injury is that it can present itself in so many
\ndifferent ways. Throughout everyone who came through my pre-registration table, they all
\nseemed to have one thing in common: they had all outwardly accepted that their brain injury was
\nsomething they had to live with, and they were ready to both fight for and support others who
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