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There is a fascinating memoir called Ghost Boy. In it, a young man describes how he fell into a coma as a boy and awoke around 14 years old. However, upon awake
by Hnrobert42 2y ago
There is a fascinating memoir called Ghost Boy. In it, a young man describes how he fell into a coma as a boy and awoke around 14 years old. However, upon awakening, he did not have control of his body. It was many more years before an aide suspected he was conscious.
His story is quite inspiring and well worth the read.
- stevenwoo 2y agoThere’s a book and movie adaptation of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, written by a guy who was awake and mostly paralyzed but worked out how to communicate by blinking his eyes.
- amy-petrik-214 2y agothere's a great audiovisual piece called "One" by the moviesong band "Metallica" about the song is about a guy who blinks in morse code, "kill me" because he has locked in syndrome and all he can do is blink
- chrisweekly 2y agobased on the book "Johnny Got His Gun", IIRC
- burkaman 2y agoHe might be on HN, Wikipedia says he's a web developer now: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Pistorius https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Pistorius