Your story isn’t something to hide in the interview. It’s the part nobody else can copy.

Everyone applying has roughly the same list of classes and roughly the same words for them. What you have been through, and what it taught you to notice, is the only part of the page that could not have been written by someone else. People hiring are mostly trying to work out who you will be at four in the afternoon on a bad day.

Pick one hard thing you got through and practice saying it in three sentences, ending with what you can do now because of it. Not a plea. Just a fact about you.