This Hat is a Helmet

(Want to listen to this post instead?  Less screen time!  Click  here ) I tip my hat off to you…or, my helmet.   Because you’re here.   You’ve made it this far.   Opened yourself up to learning about another person’s experience with brain injury. You may have a brain injury yourself.   You may know someone, or care for someone who does.   You may be a professional who wants to get a better understanding of the actual day-to-day challenges.   Either way, I tip my helmet off to you…then I put it back on before I hit my head again… This blog is called “This Hat is a Helmet” for a very good reason.   Or maybe just a reason.   Good or bad or neutral, here is that reason: we all have many different roles.   We are friends, siblings, spouses, parents, coworkers, professionals.   We may be baristas, clerks, teachers, entrepreneurs, landscapers, performers, athletes.   We may also be that person at the party with the bad jokes, or that other person at the party who thin