Last year I started an online support group on Facebook called “Parents of Children with Brain Injuries”. For the first time since Isabella’s Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), I no longer felt alone. I have other parents that can relate to how I feel, what is going on with Isabella and they quite simply just “get it”. As a parent to a child with a brain injury we are often misunderstood. We are seen as people who only talk about brain injuries, we are seen as ungrateful, we are seen as overprotective, we are seen as mean for having our child go to therapy etc. Below are 12 things we want you to know about us:
1.) We want you to know brain injuries are an invisible disability. While our child may look “fine” or even as they did before their brain injury, they are no longer the same child they…
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