I remember feeling completely broken after I had ran and fought all I could to sustain and survive being left permanently unrelated in my brain to my surroundings. I felt I couldn't accept my brain with the depth of incapabilities that I was left to. Then I read a book, a remembrance of this very TedxTalk as an example, "Shattered Innocence" by Jaycee Dugard, and I knew I could. I thought if that little girl could sustain 18 years of captivity and abuse that this little girl could survive the outcome.
