City: New York

Brain Injury: Multiple injuries from a car accident in 1987, including a brain injury that was undiagnosed until 1991.

Explanation of Mask: My mask represents nature, the universe’s natural beauty, and other things I love.  These features have been and are crucial to my wellbeing.  Within the last 4-6 years, my brain injury was properly diagnosed and with the help of superb professionals at a brain injury treatment center, I was rehabilitated.

On my mask are small representations of tremendous influences.  There are many little stickers representing things and places that I love and heavily supported me during and after my “recovery.”  However, as a person with a brain injury, the devastating experiences of having a brain injury misdiagnosed and inadequately rehabilitated for more than 20 years, is still troubling.