In the introduction Honeyman outlines some of the issues that arise from migraine studies: the invisibility of migraine, the misrepresentation of migraine and the culture of denial, the complications that pain brings to disability debates, the benefits and limitations of the social model of disability, and the difficulty of writing for children when one is no longer a child. In the United States (and in the United Kingdom), school nurses and restrooms have been withdrawn with very real consequences for migraineurs for whom an hour in a restroom may make the difference between completing the school day or going home.1 Migraineurs have a complicated relationship to food: most of us carry lists of food triggers that vary from person to person and that are often central foods in our environment, but most migraineurs are also triggered by a lack of food, which in a food-control culture means that children and teens are in constant emotional and physical conflict with the messages they receive. (Swiss physician Felix Wirtz, who compared the skin of a newborn to the tender skin, which covers an injury, appears to have been a rare exception.) The result was that it was utterly normal to undertake major surgery on babies and small children with sedation but not pain relief; to translate, they were awake, unable to move, and in pain. Honeyman also accuses authors of being far too charmed by the “aura” aspect of migraines, and what we call Alice in Wonderland syndrome (after Lewis Carroll, who appears to have had few migraines but may have been one of the people who only got aura), without realizing either how distressing it may be, or that for migraineurs this is the least important aspect of the disease.