In a message dated 5/5/02 4:31:24 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:

>There are kids with minimal damage by
>medical tests,scans etc., who don't do half of what
>Alex does. So how can the doctors say anything but "in
>my experience this type of damage leads to these
>consquences, even if they are harsh sounding.
>Joanne


    Joanne, I guess we are "fighting" a straw man, here. First, as you say,
we know very little about how the brain deals with trauma. But, more
importantly, and this IS from my own experience; people "hear" what they
THINK they hear and not what they actually hear.

Bobby