I Wish I Knew More of This Story
MaxedOutMamma, who has a very nice economics (and other stuff) blog, drops a few hints about having apparently dropped into a persistent vegetative state at some point in the past. I wish I knew more of the story - maybe if I had been reading her blog longer. I have read accounts from several people who have emerged from PVS, and I find them consistently some of the most terrifying stories I have read, though I don't think they are always meant that way when told.
In a really bizarre turn of
events, I came out of the drooling world smarter than when I went in.
No one seems to be able to explain this. I went in with about a 140-150
IQ, and I came out with 160-170. My guess is that I had so little
remaining functional brain left at my worst that I evolved an extremely
efficient method of using what I had, and that as I got more back, the
functionality of the method remained. I may have less working space
then I used to, but the way in which I use it is clearly more
efficient. I do not think in language at all. Everything is mapped into
P-Nat.
Michael Blaine:
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The Real Meaning of "Anchor Baby"
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Rudely Stamped
Michael Blaine
February 2, 2008, 9:53 pmhttp://www.rudelstamped.blogspot.com
MaxedOutMama:
Coyote, I have real and deep respect for you, and would probably try to answer your questions if I knew what you really wanted to know. FWIW, the process of slow degeneration was terrifying at first. Coming out of it was not, so I am honestly mystified. Perhaps you are trying to imagine yourself as a normal person with that degree of neurological dysfunction, but the point is that you are not a normal person by that time, thus you do not have all the reactions a normal person would.
February 3, 2008, 9:23 am