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Warning: This page contains [[Nightmare Fuel]]. Preparation of [[Brain Bleach]] is recommended.
Warning: This page contains [[Nightmare Fuel]]. Preparation of [[Brain Bleach]] is recommended.
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* One of the most common forms of this is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Motor Neurone Disease or Lou Gehrig's Disease. If you have Lou Gehrig's Disease, your motor neurons, which are responsible for triggering actions, gradually decay away while the rest of your nervous system (including your brain) remains perfectly intact. You can still feel pain and boredom but cannot move to avoid it. [[Paranoia Fuel|Clumsiness is one of the first symptoms]]. Poor [[Stephen Hawking]] gets more of a taste of this than anyone ''ever'' wants, living like this for ''years'', though he at least gets sight, hearing and enough eye movement to control his computer (which does the communicating for him), along with retaining his incredible mind.
* One of the most common forms of this is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Motor Neurone Disease or Lou Gehrig's Disease. If you have Lou Gehrig's Disease, your motor neurons, which are responsible for triggering actions, gradually decay away while the rest of your nervous system (including your brain) remains perfectly intact. You can still feel pain and boredom but cannot move to avoid it. [[Paranoia Fuel|Clumsiness is one of the first symptoms]]. Poor [[Stephen Hawking]] got more of a taste of this than anyone ''ever'' wants, living like this for ''years'', though he at least had sight, hearing and enough eye movement to control his computer (which did the communicating for him), along with retaining his incredible mind.
** The fact that Hawking is not only able to maintain a positive attitude, but still focus his brillaint mind [[Handicapped Badass|is testament to his]] [[The Determinator|sheer willpower.]]
** The fact that Hawking was not only able to maintain a positive attitude, but still focus his brilliant mind [[Handicapped Badass|was a testament to his]] [[The Determinator|sheer willpower.]]
* [[wikipedia:Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva|Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP)]]. A horrible, horrible genetic disease where, if your muscles are damaged in any way at all, your body decides to replace the damaged muscle- not with more muscle, but with ''bone''. By the time you're thirty, most, if not all of your joints have been locked into place by newly-grown bones and you die of starvation/suffocation because you can't move your jaw or ribs.
* [[wikipedia:Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva|Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP)]]. A horrible, horrible genetic disease where, if your muscles are damaged in any way at all, your body decides to replace the damaged muscle- not with more muscle, but with ''bone''. By the time you're thirty, most, if not all of your joints have been locked into place by newly-grown bones and you die of starvation/suffocation because you can't move your jaw or ribs.
** Fortunately, it's extremely rare.
** Fortunately, it's extremely rare.
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