How My Mind Came Back to Life and No One Knew, Martin Pistorius, TED Talks

Imagine being unable to say, I am hungry, I am in pain, thank you, or I love you, losing your ability to communicate, being trapped inside your body, surrounded by people yet utterly alone. For 13 long years, that was Martin Pistoriuss reality. After contracting a brain infection at the age of twelve, Pistorius lost his ability to control his movements and to speak, and eventually he failed every test for mental awareness. He had become a ghost. But then a strange thing started to happen his mi