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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Sunday May 10 2020, @02:09AM (3 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday May 10 2020, @02:09AM (#992205)

    I used to read Adams' blog, he used to be a pretty reasonable guy. This is from 15 year old memory, subject to distortions, omissions and inaccuracies, but the story as I remember it: Back around 2004-ish he posted in his blog about a struggle he had with ideopathic aphasia - in his case an inability to speak in person to person or small group settings, for some reason his presentation style speaking was mostly unaffected. After several weeks/months of worsening of the condition and increasing distress, he hit on the phrase "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick." He was able to repeat that fluently, it "felt good" doing it, and the more he did it, the more he banished his aphasia symptoms, to near total recovery.

    I stopped reading his blog around 2006, moved states and didn't get back to it for several years. When I looked for the above stories around 2012 (I think) they were gone from his blog, and nearly erased from mention everywhere I looked on the web, including places like the wayback machine.

    Perhaps coincidental, perhaps not: his political fervor seemed to rise quite a bit after that - and by the time Trump came around, I became convinced that it was more than his speech center that was damaged.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2020, @06:03AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 10 2020, @06:03AM (#992268)

    You can easily have a stroke and suffer brain damage while remaining unaware and without obvious symptoms... Scary to think about!

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 01 2020, @09:28PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 01 2020, @09:28PM (#1001888) Journal

      Even modern mental health care has difficulty helping people to achieve complete recovery from having programmed in Perl.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @09:01AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @09:01AM (#1002103)

      A friend of mine did a rotation or residency or whatever it is called in a radiology department. He said that at least once every other day, he spotted a stroke, aneurism, ischemia, or the like that was completely unmentioned in the paperwork. On more than one occasion during his time there, he would be left to wonder how the person had managed to walk in to their provider at all given what he was seeing.