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  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    WHY?

    What was the point of that experimental surgery to begin with? I know engineer brain is a helluva drug, but what was he trying to accomplish?

    • BigHaas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Around the same time, Adams said, he was making up to $1 million annually from public speaking, charging up to $100,000 per speech, until in 2005 he suddenly lost the ability to talk with other people. The mysterious condition is known as voice dystonia. While Adams could still speak normally to himself and to his cat, and he could even sing and recite memorized poems, he could no longer have conversations. “I think that’s what led to the end of my marriage,” he told me. “Losing the ability to speak made me feel like a ghost. It was incredibly lonely.” The inexplicable condition, which doctors attributed to a possible mental condition, persisted for three years. Then Adams underwent an experimental surgery that involved cutting nerves that lead from the brain to the vocal cords and building a new path using nerves from elsewhere in the neck. A few months later, his voice returned.

        • NuraShiny [any]@hexbear.net
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          I would be weary of trusting this guy with anything he says. He’s always been kinda crazy and I can easily see him convince himself he had this condition, or decide to feign it for whatever reason.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        That’s legitimately horrifying to me. I spend so much time talking, and all of my relationships rest on what I say. The idea of silent companionship just doesn’t work for me. It doesn’t excuse him, don’t get me wrong, but I can understand developing really really odd views after something like that.

        • JuneFall [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          Sure, but you could also try to learn sign language or to write, as plenty of people do. Verbal communication is nice, but there are options. That said I do understand that if you are sick you might not be able to pursue them yourself.

          However if you are as rich as that fuck that isn’t an excuse. You only need a window of being okay to assign a couple ten ks to it for support.