I suspect you are the exception... Sort of a “tornado in a junkyard” living example.
““tornado in a junkyard””
Oh yeah...*that’s* definitely going in my “list of adjectives”....LOL
The “experts” know nothing. We were told that my daughter would probably have brain damage from an illness when she was 6 weeks old. At the time, she was on a ventilator, so she couldn’t have an MRI. When she got off the ventilator, we didn’t do the MRI because we figured it wouldn’t change the way we treated her and it was risky because she would have to be sedated.
She sat up, crawled and walked when she was supposed to. At 2, she had speech problems. Our neurologist said he thought the MRI would show nothing. Well, the MRI showed she had tons of damage (on a scale of 0-10, she was a 5). The neurologist said he was surprised she wasn’t severely disabled and in a wheelchair.
She’s 14 now, and she still has speech problems and some other little problems. However, she looks normal. She is in a regular private school getting As and Bs. She is extremely good at math.
The “experts” just don’t know that much about the brain. The brain is amazing at adapting.