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put references to the late Stephen Hawking into past tense
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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]]
** The fact that Hawking
* [[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.
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