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Ask HN: How to navigate the world as a brain-damaged 17 year old?
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Re: Ask HN: How to navigate the world as a brain-damaged 17 year old?
#52I strongly suggest getting into weight lifting. There is a growing body of evidence that it helps your brain repair itself. My personal experience is that I'm much smarter after I started lifting than before. As a bonus, people are less inclined to fight you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/well/move/how-weight-trai...
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/archive/2020/06/lifting...
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/weight-training...
Re: Ask HN: How to navigate the world as a brain-damaged 17 year old?
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#54Are you in counseling to address emotional trauma around this incident? You may be dealing with PTSD on top of physical brain injury.
Also, I’m so sorry.
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#56So rather unpopular opinion here and i expect to be downvoted
Tough luck kiddo, but you are reasonably fucked
The sad thing about these injuries is that they are in fact life changing
You are not the "bright young student" that you used to be you need to get it out of your head that these things are still an option
You might at one day recover but for now that's not something for you to rely upon
The person you used to be is now dead
Re: Ask HN: How to navigate the world as a brain-damaged 17 year old?
#57First of all, Oxbridge is not that big a deal. I went there, it's just a bunch of people studying the same stuff they study everywhere else. Second, what medical help are you getting? Seek out professional advice on whatever condition you've got. You seem like you're still brighter than most people in your cohort. Don't be disheartened. If you can code, there will be things for you to do. But find out about your cond…
Oxbridge is a huge deal, maybe not so much for the education, but definitely for the connections
Re: Ask HN: How to navigate the world as a brain-damaged 17 year old?
#58I can sense some stress in your writing. "Intelligence", as you refer it, could be heavily linked to emotions. Just the feeling that you are falling behind could be enough to trigger a poor performance. Try to keep your mind cool, and release some of the pressure you are feeling (my de-stresser is weight lifting). You seem to still conserve a good base "intelligence", so that is a pretty good foundation, just keep going and let it compound over time. There are plenty of opportunities for people that have a passion, even without a formal education at all or with lifelong conditions. Learn to live with your constraints, and make the best of them. In 10 years, you'll look back surprised about how far you've come, even if it does happen that you have a lifelong problem (which might well be fully resolved in a few months).
Re: Ask HN: How to navigate the world as a brain-damaged 17 year old?
#59So rather unpopular opinion here and i expect to be downvoted Tough luck kiddo, but you are reasonably fucked The sad thing about these injuries is that they are in fact life changing You are not the "bright young student" that you used to be you need to get it out of your head that these things are still an option You might at one day recover but for now that's not something for you to rely upon The person you used…
Patently untrue. Recovery from physical and emotional trauma is possible. It requires actively working at it.
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#60Not related, forgive me please, but if you give me the bully's location, I can do some of my own justice to them. (unfortunately sarcastic)