A Ghostly Presence

Abstract

Ghostlike, I move between the worlds of traumatic brain injury, Dystonia, and academia, seeking a place to belong. Badalotti (2014) suggests that the “notion of boundaries, of belonging and not belonging … is thrown into sharper relief and magnified through personal experience” (p. 134). Her observation lends credence to my story; I suspect my ghostlike feelings of (un)belonging were initiated by a life-changing personal experience. On September 13, 1997, I sustained a severe traumatic brain injury when I fell from my horse.