Accept

My recovery has definitely taught me the range of social acceptability.  People at therapy act much nicer than people in the "real" world.  A person behaves nicer, because, in part, a lot of patients come into his or her life, he or she doesn't know who he or she has met, and he or she chooses to act very nice, and, furthermore, common curtiousty teaches a person to treat an impaired person nice.  I receive many waves from therapists, I think, I haven't met (I put I think there just because I might have met him or her, and I can't remember meeting him or her.  My short-term memory sucks.)  A person with a brain injury has trouble controlling himself or herself, and has trouble remembering the people in his or her "circle of friends", and decides to take the safe route, as a result of, possibly, not remembering a person, and wave to many people.  My range of social acceptability has definitely widened, as a result of my accident.  I have decided to compliment someone if I can think to compliment him or her.  If a female looks pretty, just tell her she looks pretty.  No one will judge you, because of 1 compliment.  If she doesn't have a fiancé or a husband maybe, in the future, her and you will make out.