About Peter

Known for integrity, kindness, and loyalty – along with a comedic streak – Peter S. Kahrmann is a writer, public speaker, and human rights advocate.

The course of Mr. Kahrmann’s life went through a tectonic change when he was held up and shot in the head at point blank range in August 1984. The bullet remains lodged in his brain.

Mr. Kahrmann is a co-founder and former board member of the New York City Chapter of Victims for Victims, a past member of the NY State Independent Living Council and a former board member of the Brain Injury Association of NY State.

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Hello dear Peter. The year is 1999 and Northeast Center for Special Care is ramping up and I was the little whirlwind medical secretary trying to keep Gerry Brooks in his place when he asked me to find you and Dominic and ??? . You look well. Hope you are happy. Love the blog. Thank Lorraine for posting it on FB.

Deb Lawrence
Red Hook

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Heya sir Peter, Look forward to more. Loved too reading about you, so precious.

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Hi peter, glad to see you are still out there. On this end, recovering from a long illness,
reconnecting…
Lori Meyer

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Hi Peter
I have read many of your articles in Independence Today. I guess I have the kind of ptsd you spoke about. It is always with me. It was a relief in a way to read your words. I don’t know anyone else that has this kind of ptsd but I can identify what you went through, the fear and sweating, my heart races and I don’t usually see it coming. It is kind of a freight train. I receive Independence Today through an agency that assists my 23yr old son whom has significant autism. After I read the article, I guess I just wish I had someone to talk to that understands what happens. I have gone to counseling but when I read about your real life experiences it helps. I guess it made me feel less embarrassed, like this happens and there are reasons for it, even though I wish I could make it never happen again, be stronger. My dogs help me a great deal also. Great article – thank you.

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Hello Peter
I just read your most recent article in Independence Today. I’m delighted that it came out before the election and hope that it will force some still undecided (how can that be) and waivering voters away from Donald Trump. I agree with everything you said about him. Like you, I also supported Bernie Sanders. I even begged him to consider an independent run after he did not gain the Democratic party presidential nomination, and would happily have voted for him and actively campaigned for him if he had decided to do so. I don’t like or trust Hillary Clinton at all, but the idea of a Donald Trump presidency is almost enough to make me physically ill and it terrifies me. The man, I believe, is evil and I whole heartedly agree with your insightful vision of what he might be capable of doing. It is up to the voters now, but thank you so much for your attempt to stir them away from Donald Trump.I hope with all my heart that it works. God bless.

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Hi Peter, I enjoyed your post about the “The fix is in” TBI waiver complaints.

It was on point and helpful to me as I spent a week trying to find out what the complaint process actually was and how to advocate on some issues.

Eventually I found out what the fair hearing process was for a complaint about the complaint process.

There is none, because you can’t have a fair hearing about the complaint process.

So I kept looking…read a bunch of redacted cases of the same issue…then I read your post…confirmation from a fellow TBI!

So rather than waste any more of my cognition on this matter…I wrote a nice, friendly email to RRDS and basically told them I would no longer help them cherry pick answers
for my complaint and their “investigation” because the process is unfair, a waste of tax dollars, not my job and I need my cognition for more important things like staying alert when I cross the street.

The only I power I had, is what I used (I don’t have to participate in the cherry picking because my complaint is a complaint of the complaint process and that’s tied to the original complaint, so…you can’t make me…nananana …”therefore, furthermore and whatever”

Blane

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