Hello! My name is Tara, mos of you know me as Catskist, but I'd like to share my story with you! (This is kind of like a draw my life but with words)

  Anyways,

When I was a baby, I was diagnosed with Hydrocephalus and Dandywalker.

Basically Hydrocephalus is when there is fluid overflow in the brain and in order to get it out, there needs to be a shunt put in, (A shunt is basically something that assures I work like a proper human being) Dandywalker is where the lower brain, instead of looking like the normal doughnut, it's more of a horse shoe. 

 I didn't even know I had this until I had a complete and total melt down because the tube of my shunt broke. I couldn't swallow anything with out it coming back up (even my own saliva)I couldn't walk with out falling, I couldn't stay awake because I was in so much pain it made me insanely tired. Best part is I was 8 when that happened. yeah good times... but I'm better now!

Anyways in my life I have had to get a total of 4 surgeries, and I'm 13 years old! That's a lot... well by my standards it is!  

 Every time I went in for surgery I'd always get asked what it was for and my mom didn't want me sharing the reason why in fear of people wanting to see what happened and bonking me over the head. (That's where the shunt is) Anyways, in 3rd grade when we started times tables, I started struggling and failing math. My teacher was disappointed in me so I made up lies in an attempt to make it better. Soon enough, my parents figured out I had dyscaulclia and needed a tutor. Dyscaulclia is basically dyslexia  except with numbers instead of letters, an example would be someone may see 325 - 742 and someone with dyscaulclia might see 352 + 743.  I transferred schools due to reasons I'd like to keep unknown. It was my first public school and still is actually! I made a lot of friends here and lost a lot too, I went through some heavy stuff and started venting about it. What happened there really messed me up and basically broke my emotions and now I have bad social anxiety because I don't really trust anyone.

My story is incomplete, it's just beginning, where one chapter closes another opens.... and it reveals a whole new beautiful world