The issue is not about access to activities and friends. The issue is the personality changes that result in losses of friends and social contacts.

When I had my injury at 10 years old, I returned to school after only 4 days away. I had the same access to my friends and classmates but my personality had changed. I lost most of my friends. I had been a 'get along with everybody' type but that ended. I started getting picked on and bullied.

As my mother has said. After my head injury, she lost her sweet little boy.

There was no support for my recovery let alone any advice or counseling regarding how to deal with the personality changes.