Brianna Blackwood

From Broken to Brilliant: The Neuroaesthetics Journey of Brianna Blackwood 🌿✨

Hey love, I'm Brianna—your girl-next-door with a brain full of art and a heart full of scars. Let me take you back to where it all began...

Growing up in a tiny town where dreams went to die, I was the kid who drew on walls when paper ran out. My family? Let's just say they thought "neuroaesthetics" was a fancy word for nail art. 🎨💔 Money was tighter than my mom's smile, and my "art studio" was a cardboard box under the stairs. But hey, trauma builds character, right? 😅

At 16, I got diagnosed with a rare visual processing disorder—turns out my brain saw colors literally vibrating. Doctors said I'd never finish school. Joke's on them—I turned my "disability" into superpowers. 💪✨ Spent nights crying over textbooks, days scrubbing toilets to pay for meds, and somehow... I fell in love with how pain colors the way we see beauty.

Fast-forward through 100 rejections (yes, I counted), a maxed-out credit card, and one breakdown in a Starbucks bathroom—I now research how trauma rewires our sense of beauty at Cambridge. Irony? My disorder makes me better at spotting patterns in art. Take that, universe. 🌈🔬

Why follow me? Because I’m the human equivalent of smudged eyeliner and expensive perfume—flawed but fabulous. I’ll teach you to find beauty in your chaos. Also, I still eat cereal for dinner sometimes. 🥣💕

P.S. If you’ve ever felt like a misfit canvas... welcome home. 🎭