I HATE THAT MY HAVING A STROKE HAS THRUST US INTO BEFRIENDING THE ELDERLY’NOTHING AGAINST ELDERLY PEOPLE, BUT I’M IN MY EARLY 30S & WOULD LIKE YOUNGER COUPLES 2 HANG OUT WITH, DESPITE BEING HANDICAPPED! I WILL ‘GROW INTO’ OLDER FRIENDS AS WE ALL GROW OLDER. IT SEEMS HARD 2 understand THAT stroke survivors r not all 80 year olds in nursing homes. SINCE MY DOUBLE VISION MAKES IT HARD, I HAD CARA, MY CARETAKER/PERSONAL ASST., READ SOME OF MY YAHOO SUPPORT GROUP 2 ME. SHE COULDN’T GET OVER HOW YOUNG WE WERE! MOST HAD THEIR STROKES IN THEIR 20S, & I RECENTLY LEARNED A GIRL WAS 7 yearS old WHEN SHE STROKED! OF COURSE, THERE R ALL KINDS OF STROKES, & FEW SEEM AS SERIOULY AFFECTED AS ME, BUT IT’S NICE 2 KNOW THAT MANY SURVIVORS OF STROKE, AFTER 15 YRS., R STILL PROGRESSING/RECOVERING! ANOTHER MYTH IS THAT 2 HAVE A STROKE, U HAVE BAD HEALTH. WRONG. I WAS PERFECCTLY HEALTHY. I NEVER SMOKED OR DRANK. I HAD NO WARNING SIGNS. MAYBE SOMEDAY I WILL POST WHAT HAPPENED, BUT THE DOCTORS NEVER FOUND A CAUSE.