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In this series of stories, an Exploratorium exhibit developer shares her experience recovering from a Traumatic Brain Injury.

Imagine walking up a hill one morning and coming down a different person. That’s what happened to me a couple of years ago when I fainted and hit my head. I acquired a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) that affected my senses, equilibrium, emotions, and cognition.

After my accident I became chronically sensitive to noise, as if the volume had been cranked up on every note in my auditory landscape. Here are some stories of learning to live with chronic sound sensitivity.