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So Bruce Willis has brain damage and is losing...

LionDeNittany

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His ability to speak at 67 years old.

That's fairly young I imagine for this sort of thing.

His family had to shut him down from filming. A sort of Peter Max thing going on there.

Two fairly young kids 10 and 8.
 
It appears that a close group of family and friends knew about this for the past two or three years. Maybe some of you have seen his recent low budget films, he would fly in and film for maybe one or two days and be done filming for the movie in four or eight hours. He also would use an earpiece for someone feed him the lines. It appears he may have dementia or ALS.
 
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It appears that a close group of family and friends knew about this for the past two or three years. Maybe some of you have seen his recent low budget films, he would fly in and film for maybe one or two days and be done filming for the movie in four or eight hours. He also would use an earpiece for someone feed him the lines. It appears he may have dementia or ALS.
I lost an old friend to the same illness. It can cause loss of speech, severe cognitive impairment, and dementia-like symptoms - with death soon after. Tragic.
 
It appears that a close group of family and friends knew about this for the past two or three years. Maybe some of you have seen his recent low budget films, he would fly in and film for maybe one or two days and be done filming for the movie in four or eight hours. He also would use an earpiece for someone feed him the lines. It appears he may have dementia or ALS.
Likely progressive non fluent aphasia variant of front temporal dementia. FTD is an early onset dementia with onset in 60s so he right in the window and what is being described sounds like that condition.
 
It appears that a close group of family and friends knew about this for the past two or three years. Maybe some of you have seen his recent low budget films, he would fly in and film for maybe one or two days and be done filming for the movie in four or eight hours. He also would use an earpiece for someone feed him the lines. It appears he may have dementia or ALS.

I have not seen any of his recent films. Maybe will watch them now knowing they are the last.

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Likely progressive non fluent aphasia variant of front temporal dementia. FTD is an early onset dementia with onset in 60s so he right in the window and what is being described sounds like that condition.
Thanks for the likely diagnosis. Was not aware of this condition until a very prominent sports broadcaster in this area, Woody Durham, was taken down by the disease. An especially cruel disease to those who have made a living from public speaking and acting.


For 40 years, Woody Durham was the “voice of the Tar Heels,” giving play-by-play coverage to the North Carolina men’s basketball team. He retired in 2011 and was diagnosed with Primary Progressive Aphasia in 2016. He died several weeks ago and is sorely missed in the sports world.

We’ve been profiling well-known people with aphasia, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Gabby Giffords. Aphasia can affect anyone; even poetic writers and deep thinkers.

A Primary Progressive Aphasia Diagnosis

Being diagnosed with Primary Progressive Aphasia initially brought Durham a modicum of peace:

For years, Woody Durham and his family feared the unknown while the retired UNC radio announcer gradually lost his ability to speak. At first the diagnosis of Primary Progressive Aphasia, a neurocognitive disorder that robs its victims of their vocabulary, brought relief.
 
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Pretty brutal. It’s always strange when someone who’s been in the limelight for decades just fades away. They die several years (sometimes more) later and you thought they had been dead for awhile. Once someone famous drops out of the limelight - the world moves on so quickly.
 
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