Acceptance

August 16, 2016 (Chapter 2 Acceptance and Denial in my book)

There are times when it is difficult and sometimes impossible for me to compare something. For example, if I have an injury and I am in a lot of daily pain. If someone asked me if my pain level is better today than yesterday, how would I answer that? I think that for most people, this would be an easy question to answer. For me, this is a very interesting question. In order for me to be able to answer this, I need to be able to compare this day with the previous one, which for most people is not a problem. But for me, because I have problems with my short-term memory, this is a difficult task for me. I think that most of the time I would be unable to answer this question because it would just be a random guess and no data to back it up.

This is just the way it is and I have no choice but to accept it and just continue to live my life the best way that I know how, making adjustments along the way to accommodate changes in my cognition.