I think the hardest aspect for me was physically my body felt fine, but I could tell I was off. My head was still hurting and it's really hard to deal with that fact that your body is restless and it wants to go perform, but your brain and your mind can't handle it. So that was really hard for me. And then readjusting back into typical health, a hard thing about it was the brain fog that I have regarding memories and my past.
I think the hardest aspect of a concussion is just that you can't function the way that you did before. It's like your body feels fine besides your head obviously, but you just can't like concentrate and work and study and read and even do like things that you enjoy like listening to music sometimes can hurt and reading. It's just hard.
So I got a concussion my junior year of high school and I thought, you know, like I had heard of people getting concussions but I had never experienced it. And I gave myself a couple days and then I went back to school and I remember sitting in my AP statistics class just staring at the board and being like, I do not understand a single thing that is happening right now. And like, don't get me wrong, like I didn't know everything that was happening in that class, but I like knew that I should understand what he was saying, but just like my brain was so slow. And that was genuine, that was genuinely like the hardest part about it for me was just like not feeling like myself. And I just felt like I couldn't understand and I felt so, so, so dumb. And it was really, really hard for me. But luckily that has changed.