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Deborah Griffing

How we perceive the world around us has much to do with the workings of our brain. I spend a great deal of time with a diverse population of individuals with disabilities such as: mental health, developmental, dementia, or a combination of conditions. I have watched a close family member navigate the complicated paths of paranoid schizophrenia and my mother transition from the world of an intellectual academic to the shadows of Alzheimers. I am well aware that what we perceive as our reali