Well, this is a bit of a take off from my friend Keith, but I loved reading the responses to his question. I loved the openness of people's responses and the sharing of opinions. His question was timely for me when I got "dismissed" by a woman in life in conversation during a sharing of ideas. I wondered if I had no knowledge of brain injury or didn't have one how I would have reacted. It is a different question sort of because a brain inury is not necessarily visible to the eye -sometimes people have scars on their heads where hair does not grow back. Sometimes you can sense a brain injury by non-linear conversation - or a repeatition of a thought in the same conversation. Sometimes the person while come out and tell you. There are varying degrees of brain injury as with any injury. Many people such as myself will rarely mention directly that they have a brain injury because of the feared stigma of the very word and misconceptions. I am often one of those people and I have had a brain injury for seven years now. People see me as "different" but luckily the word "artist" saves me at times. The word artist is a wonderful word -we are all creative and all artists really -living life is a creative adventure. Recently a women at one of the magazines was saying she couldn't believe the misspelled words on resumes from people that wanted to write for the magazine -I asked her if the same she felt the same about artists and photographers and joking that she would probably see the spelling as a eccentric and non-essentail thing - she said yes! ha! Fabulous! I often get away with wearing things that are different - typically do to lack of laundry planning - but recently I wore two colors together that were gosh plain bizarre and frankly startling to the eye in an "oh my" kind of way -I didn't care - the next day an intern dressed in the same two colors - coincedence maybe, but it had me chuckle. So I won't be offended -in fact it makes me want to do a book on life changes and disabilities to educate and to share - so please write your comments candidly and openly. If someone told you they had a brain injury -would you look at them differently and how? Would you feel pity? Would you question their capabilities say on a project? Would you be more skeptical of their ideas than someone without a brain injury? Second-guess them? Would you ask their advice or find someone else? It is a hard question, quite frankly before having a brain injury, i would think differently than i do now. So answer candidly, I won't be offended.