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I’m just here for the comments!! Great article!! I’m going to read it again… 😊

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Aug 19Liked by Pamela Fitzsimmons

I bumped my head once. I need one of those cards. Then I can do whatever I want.

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Among the information passed out at the meeting was a handout stating, “Injuries from your past can affect how you think, feel or act today.”

The handout lists a series of questions adapted from the Ohio Brain Injury Program at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. If you look at these questions under “Step 1,” it’s hard to imagine someone who hasn’t had at least one these of these occur in their lifetime.

https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/-/media/files/wexnermedical/patient-care/healthcare-services/neurological-institute/neuroscience-research-institute/osu_tbiform_july2013-final.pdf?rev=d11ca42cb8fd47169c558a603f0677c7&hash=D7E97209240357990CF1E157155FD46D

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Aug 19Liked by Pamela Fitzsimmons

You won't need much more.

"TBI" sounds very serious, and it can be. Or it can be a total scam. Self-diagnosis does not work and even if someone does have head injury, there is no scientific research that absolves that person of moral or legal responsibility.

It sounds as though maybe someone who claims they are so altered by whatever happened should NOT be trusted with a license to practice law, or otherwise place peoples' lives in their hands!

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I got a spanking when I was a kid--boy, it really hurt (which was the point of the exercise)--but now we know that it was child-abuse, which traumatized me and therefore sticking up that convenience store was actually not my fault. Case closed.

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