'ARThi' -pronounced 'Art-y'- uses peer-support and Art to build back other brain injury survivors' abilities, to help them take part, and join back in! again
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | I work with other fellow-survivors -or 'recoverees'-from brain injuries, whose rehabilitation I can now help, where I want to rebuild their abilities of doing tasks and taking part. |
| Location | Edinburgh,, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | When I was 24 years old, the brain injury I had, stopped any thuigs that I was doing. One side of my body -the whole rightside of my body was paralysed. In contrast, my left sidev a Like I bacame, surviviors became just another Observed, no longer doing things with the others. → But because I had always faced up to difficulties to me, I never ceased to make the effort to ‘better myself’ and 'win the Fight'! After I struggled on for nearly 25 years -without real structure to the help I sought- I now want to use what I learned -building myself back, to help you! ==> Come and try it! <== When something did not come easily -I learned to persist, and when no other way, was found, I learned and used, new ways. So, no longer am I sidelined, I learned to do things again by joining back in! I now want to share how Art helped me when I started to start rebuild my abilities, and helped me to become able, believe in my own fight, recovering from my brain injury. |
| Interests | I want to share all that I learned these past 25 years, -since my own survival from my own traumatic brain injury (1988). I want to help you, and other, brain injury survivors between 19 and 55 years old, <-- my 'Peers', to slowly help them, to take part again, and -when they want to- regain abiities that are needed doing a task -which may include (the ultimate, a paid!) job. I want to share how, after my injuries, I starter to take part, and do things again. All that I learned was slow and tookan effort, and took time. Everything was hard, but I pressed on! -> Like, I had learn to focus, use my hands, hand-eye, memory, longer term memory, learn to respond and relate with others that shared what I did. All this happened when I started to do Art, More than, starting for myself, I started to be able to use my hands, start to make memories, make and then, to start to remember visual images, followed by to reform my own abilities to to things again. This is better than just being a Spectator, -that many brain injury survivors, become. Doing this, this helped my memory, speech, that lead to talking with other peope who took part, as well in Art,. -This built my creativity, → includes music(!!) -share what I struggled, through and learned, -think a lot about 'being Included', -to do things again after participate, at first with the worker only, and later with others, -to reintegrate myself and others, -rehab, -rehabilitation, -help relearn, -ability to do, -help task, -Traumatic Brain Injury, -head injury, -TBI survivor, -(TBI recoveree), -recovery,-do, -Inclusion, -do task,-create,-participate, -Help other survivors, -survivors of TBI, -under the age of 50, -Peer-support, -disabilities, -Edinburgh, -Scotland, -United Kingdom, or Britain, |
| Favorite movies | After an acquired brain injury, survivors face many physical, emotional and cognitive difficlties, that stop the survivors' active involvement. Be it doing things. -> Poor memory, speech, no spontaneous chat, inactive --> stopped them getting on with other people. |
| Favorite music | → Me, I sing with Songworks with keen group of young(er!) adult singers in Edinburgh. → I also love Theatre, Musical performances, Dance -Ceilidhs- and Festivals!! |