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(via Trial of brain injury implant at Stanford proves so successful patients refuse to turn it off)

A brain implant that allows people with head injuries to function again proved so successful in a trial that participants refused to turn the device off.

I want to kiss your forehead and whisper sweet nothings to it.

Thank you for being the door to him.

For containing him, and keeping him safe.

Thank you for your folds and creases, that contain pages of his pleasure, pain and ponderance.

Thank for always being so supple yet strong.

The least I can do to show my gratitude is knock politely and leave my gifts by your doorstep.

- HB

Something that drives me fucking crazy is when I have trouble with word finding or remembering something, then explain it's just a brain injury problem, and the person responds by saying something like "oh I'm the exact same way!"

You're not the exact same way, if you can read without technology assistance, if you can hold a job, if you can stay verbal 100% of the time, if you don't have to wear an emergency bracelet with your husband's phone number on it any time you leave the house without him, if you can drive a car, etc. It's not the fucking same, stop being an invalidating tool.

Everytime someone mischaracterizes Mituna, a person with a brain injury gets a gun