Hello all you still smart important people,

I've learned that I have a new superpower since my injury. I have the ability to detect a rottenness in people. It's unfortunate that a handful of people I've come in contact with have displayed behavior that they didn't prior to my brain injury.

It's as if they think I can't understand or don't see it. My intelligence is still there, everything just works differently, and slowly now. I know when someone is being cruel or bad.

I've been a child advocate for years. You can't just be kind when others witness you with kids. It has to be all the time and come from respect of others.

I'm seeing a side of people I didn't before maybe because it was obvious I had all my faculties working correctly. I've met amazingly kind people and wolves in sheeps clothing.

I've always had the attitude of be kind to others, they'll be kind to you. That doesn't always work but mostly in my life. Now I feel even though I'm kind, some people talk down to me or are outright cruel. I lost my voice, my thoughts don't come fast anymore and my lack of confidence is obvious. I'm afraid if I do speak up and it all comes out wrong they'll think I've lost my mind and admit me.

I'm rarely alone. 100 % of the time someone has driven me. 98% of the time someone is with me. It's the other 2% of the time that this happens.

Any thoughts on this? Am I lacking perspective?

If no one told you lately, you are smart, and you are important.. I couldn't get through this without all of you here.