Hidden Disabilities

What about the things that are invisible to us?
by Alison Bonds Shapiro, M.B.A. in Healing Into Possibility
Originally published online by Psychology Today

Very often our perception and judgment of a person is based on what is visible or apparent to us - what we can readily notice. But what about the things that are invisible to us? How do we access information, or even remember that there is information about a person that we don't notice?

I recently met Grace, a woman who had a traumatic brain injury when she was sixteen years old. She was in a car accident, an all too common occurrence. An accident occurs, the head hits a part of the car and internal damage to the brain results, ranging from mild to severe. Grace shows no outside cues of brain damage. There are no visible cues of her head injury. Grace's walking, vision and physical reflexes look "normal."

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