My life began in late 2018 as a rehabilitation crafting concept.
Leanne had an idea to create a hand knitted ‘Brain Beenie’.
The concept was to knitt the individual components of her brain in different colours to make it easy to explain her brain injury to other people.
She also decided to use a ‘Grey’ colour wool to knitt the parts that were severely damaged from her brain injury.
As you can see, the complete right side of my brain is knitted in ‘Grey’.
I would like to mention that a major ‘rehabilitation’ part was that Leanne had to re-learn how to knitt, a skill lost to her for nearly 30 years.
Oww, another quick mention – among many other things, the right side of the brain is used for muscle control, movement… finger dexterity !
As a result of Leanne’s patience and perseverance, I came into being and became an overnight sensation among her friends and peers.
In August 2019, Leanne and I conducted our first ever public speech & presentation as part of Brain Injury Awareness Week 2019.
I am honoured that Ability ID has bestowed upon me the roles and responsibilities of ‘Mascot and Brains of the Association’.
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