Name: Alicia

City: Cambridge

Brain Injury: Two motor vehicle accidents with side airbag impact to each side of my head leading to concussions

Explanation of Mask: My right side is the mask I put on for the world to appear normal.  My left side represents the roller-coaster of emotions and feelings I had on a daily basis.  I no longer felt like myself, leading me to ask often, “Who am I now?”  I did not explain what was going on in my head.  My mouth felt taped shut.  My eyes could not see straight, were painful and glazed over, like I would never see out, or in, clearly again.