Readers' stories
Since it was launched this year, Who Are You Now? has reached readers across Europe, America and the rest of the world: people who have survived injuries, as well as their relatives, friends and supporters. On this page you can read some of their stories.
To find out how you can submit your own story click here.
Tom
It is only just dawning on me how the car crash and brain injury turned that 17-year-old's future prospects on their head.
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Sarah
I have always felt a need to ‘prove myself’; now I feel a greater need to ‘be myself’, with all the frailties and strengths which arise from my brain injury.
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Erin
The car accident that diverted me happened on January 6, 1997. I woke up in a hospital on February 4, 1997. I wasn’t scared or confused — I was tired
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Giles
My life is focussed on being recognised for the skills and abilities I have, not to be disregarded and identified by the head injury and the skills and abilities I have lost.
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Sophie
I felt like I was getting a cold but can then remember nothing until I woke up in hospital a month later
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Laura
My mind-set has now changed somewhat from the “I used to be amazing and now I am not” – six months of being stuck in bed with only “The Boys” for company, being unable to see, walk, speak or do pretty much anything leaves time for reflection
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Steph
I was hospitalised for ten days; I don't remember those days at all
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Peter
Who am I now? I don't know that I ever will have an answer to that, or that I ever did
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Ian
Hope, Inspiration and the secret self.
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