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- Will I ever get over this?
- It was November 2015 when I got a traumatic brain injury in gym class. It impacted everything, including school, friendships, relationships, and daily life. This was the day I felt that the world was crushing me into tiny pieces, leaving me to die.
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- Every year that passed made me more miserable than the next, as the TBI altered my personality over time. I became something I was unhappy with and I was doing poorly in classes. I was switched to home school in grade 10.The symptoms of my TBI include short-term memory loss, comprehension issues, and hearing and sight sensitivity.
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- I graduated high school and forced myself to go to college. I knew it would be good for me despite having the hardest time in high school adjusting to everything year after year.
- I began my first semester of college in 2019 and did not have the greatest professors. One graded me poorly because of my issues and did not stick to the accommodations I needed. I met with her one day after class to ask how to improve. She said, "You won't make it far in life, you aren't very bright or smart." It crushed me.
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- Covid hit in the spring semester. I hadn't been back to school in person since, but I worked hard to bring up the GPA I had tanked from not being understood and helped in school. I ended up making Dean's List for the first time. It took me a few years to bring up my GPA. I had to teach myself everything.I decided to apply to a four-year university and ended up at Liberty.
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- I began at Liberty University in the spring of 2023, where I started to pass everything with flying colors. I still felt that I was at rock bottom and unhappy in life, and I blamed my head injury for the longest time. I eventually had a bad panic attack over it; bad enough, it forced me to get help. I ultimately quit therapy and started working on my methods to better myself. It has been a journey, to say the least; I was angry with the world. But my grades were amazing, so I dedicated my entire time to ensuring I would prove my past self and others in life wrong about my intellect, thus earning myself a 4.0 each semester since Covid. It was the one thing that made me feel good, but not good enough. I needed something more, so I began trying to open my heart to God.
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- Thanks to people who believed in me and my attempt to grow my faith in God, I have finally achieved my dream of being the best version of myself I could be, and I will be graduating with an honors degree in History, 4.0 GPA, Dean's List, and in the National Honors Society. I am in the best headspace I've been in since everything with school started in 2015, as it made it difficult for me to want to continue. I proved that perseverance goes a long way, as does attempting to open yourself to God and what He can do. My journey with God is still fairly new, but I can confidently say I'm doing my best to understand religion and God as best as possible.
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