In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, Junior, the narrator and protagonist of the novel, suffers physically from hydrocephalus, or water on the brain. In the first chapter of the novel, Junior details his birth and the struggle that he has had with his physical condition. Junior also suffers from other physical ailments such as seizures. Aside from his physical afflictions, Junior also suffers from discrimination. For example, when he leaves the reservation school in Wellpinit to attend school in an all-white farming town Reardan, many Indians feel that he is being a traitor, and they are not quiet about it when they see Junior. They taunt and ridicule him publicly. Similarly, the students at Reardan discriminate against Junior when he transfers into the school, and they call him derogatory names such as "chief." So these are some of the things from which Junior suffers in the novel.
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