What I know about my head injury is that it forced me to favor the opposite side of my brain rather than using both…

I too had suffered a head injury in 1968 while playing softball in which the right side of my head was cut open…

What's In Your Brain? What's In Your Mind?

…whenever I employed the right side of my brain where the injury occurred, I would get a throbbing pain in the frontal lobe area.   You can imagine that the pain of this injury would be more acute in my youth than in the present but due to repeated dissociations, the splitting has become pathological.

Nanny Doss may have been acting out the content of her creative mind due to her injury and whatever her parents put into it, anecdotal or whatever…