ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.
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A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.
There is research proving that deaf people have increased visual abilities.
To cure ALS medically is not economical. The realities are that it's difficult to find funding for research for a medical cure. I believe in developing technology as opposed to medical research. Technology can be economical.
The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.
Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.
The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.
I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.
The more studies that come out that talk about concussions and so forth, it makes me wonder. I wonder, more importantly than the stroke, the impact that concussions have had on my life, particularly as I get older.
Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
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