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FYI, because it is not at all clear from the title, this is a story about recovering from a serious brain injury.

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post #2

FYI, because it is not at all clear from the title, this is a story about recovering from a serious brain injury.

lol that is the worst tldr ever. It is about someone born with profound retardation due to brain injury and who later dies due to his disability as an adult, and the attempt of his brother to communicate with him.

but i thought it had something to do with crypto currency seeds

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post #2

FYI, because it is not at all clear from the title, this is a story about recovering from a serious brain injury.

lol that is the worst tldr ever. It is about someone born with profound retardation due to brain injury and who later dies due to his disability as an adult, and the attempt of his brother to communicate with him. but i thought it had something to do with crypto currency seeds

I expected the article to be about geolocation.

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Holy cow, I was not expecting that. Thank you.

Yeah... been spending most of a lazy day reading random HN comment threads and the article if it seemed interesting enough, and then read this one. Powerful stuff.

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post #2

FYI, because it is not at all clear from the title, this is a story about recovering from a serious brain injury.

lol that is the worst tldr ever. It is about someone born with profound retardation due to brain injury and who later dies due to his disability as an adult, and the attempt of his brother to communicate with him. but i thought it had something to do with crypto currency seeds

Why was this downvoted?

This is correct, parent provides clearly wrong information. And yeah, I thought this was going to be the 12word thing cryptos use, as well.

Ended up in tears, instead.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

lol that is the worst tldr ever. It is about someone born with profound retardation due to brain injury and who later dies due to his disability as an adult, and the attempt of his brother to communicate with him. but i thought it had something to do with crypto currency seeds

Why was this downvoted? This is correct, parent provides clearly wrong information. And yeah, I thought this was going to be the 12word thing cryptos use, as well. Ended up in tears, instead.

It's not PC to use the r-word nowadays, it really offends some people with non neurotypical folks in their families.
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