TBI SURVIVOR TRYING TO SURVIVE!!

My story begins on July 11, 1970; the day I was born.  I was untapped potential at its best, a Child Prodigy.  I was reading so-called high-tech books that were available at my preschool.  I was taking art classes at the local craft center, and I was in the state spelling bee.  I was enrolled at the local college to take basic programming in 1982.  Unfortunately, the week before classes started, I was hit by a car while riding a bike.  At the time they didn't require or suggest the wearing of a helmet and I sustained a "Closed Head Injury" and a "TBI".  I suffered through the last six years of school, being teased, put down, stepped on and spit on, etc...

Then I went to college for approximately 10 years and got several degrees/diplomas.  After that I tried to get a job like I was raised and trained to do.  Unfortunately, I would soon learn that it didn't matter how much I or others lied to me through the years, I couldn't just blend in after all as a normal hard-working individual.  With the problems still lingering on from the above-stated accident, I just didn't fit in anywhere.  I had several good jobs, but mostly crap jobs compared to what I could have done in the beginning, but they paid.  I continued to go to school and worked hard.  I attempted to lead a normal life, applied for "Unsecured Credit Cards", continued working at whatever I could find to do, and paid them off on time as promised, but then I was in another accident in 1997 another Head Injury with broken bones and couldn't even do the crap jobs anymore and was laid off/fired!  I got a payoff from that accident although it wasn't what I was promised, the person at fault father was a big-time lawyer, with lots of money and he paid off my lawyer and I had to settle for what I could get.  I tried to start my own company with that money and move to the beach where I always wanted to live, but unfortunately, I got scammed too much, and eventually, my business went under and I had to move back home with my mom and family with nothing.  Eventually, I was approved for disability, using the facts from the "TBI" and the most recent accident, but they would only back pay me to 1997, which meant it went on my work history instead of my parents, so I now live off less a month than I used to make a week.

One of the problems I still deal with is optic nerve damage, as well as getting along with others and other little glitches that go along with a head injury...   I keep beating myself up mentally for every little thing that happens in my life, especially the big things; I am desperate for a cure... I continue to always be in the wrong places at the wrong time, it's time for a positive change...Currently, by the grace of GOD, I have gotten married to the first love of my life… She has Asperger's Syndrome, Anxiety and Depression.  These disabilities have her working in a assembly line at a warehouse.  Her medical bills exceed two thousand dollars.