Read this book and you'll never complain, ever, about anything. Imagine being trapped in a vegetative body but with full cognition and awareness. You can hear, see and understand everything, but you can't move or do anything. Everyone around you--your family, your caregivers, everyone--thinks you're a literal vegetable. And some of those around you will act like it, having insulting conversations about you while you're right there. Some caregivers--not all of them, mercifully--will handle you like a slab of meat. Occasionally you'll be rolled over to a performative "activity" in which a caregiver drags your fingerpainted hand across a paper, so your care facility can show your family you aren't spending all day staring at the wall. But yet you do spend most of your time staring at the wall, or worse, watching Barney . You will come to hate Barney with all your soul. Imagine living like this. For years . Until one caregiver really looks at you, reall...
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