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Nesh Pillay: Be Kind To Little Man
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A brain injury can steal your past without touching your personality, and that gap is where so many families get lost. I sit down with Nesh Pillay, known from Amazon Prime’s 50,000 First Dates, to talk about what amnesia and traumatic brain injury actually feel like from the inside, including the strange reality of knowing facts about your life while lacking the “video playback” most people assume memory is.
We dig into Nesh’s “little man in the basement” analogy for memory access, why time can stop feeling real, and how photos and videos become an external hard drive for…
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