The one aspect this misses that's so hard to communicate is the lack of visual processing inside the sort of curled aura "area". When I was getting them often a

The one aspect this misses that's so hard to communicate is the lack of visual processing inside the sort of curled aura "area". When I was getting them often as a kid, I would basically become illiterate over the course of 15minutes, because anything in that shimmering area was not parseable. I could SEE the shape of a letter, but I couldn't read the word. That shimmering area grows and grows till it's covering all of your vision, but near the start you can still read out of one side. It was by far, the part of migraines I hated the most as a kid because it took intense pain that people assume you're overblowing, and prefaced it with 30-45 minutes of people thinking I was an idiot/doing some weird awkward joke. (Or having a stroke! The dread of not being able to speak correctly, not being able to read, a slow pain in my temple getting stronger and stronger, and now the teacher is calling 911 while the class starts screaming.)