Bruce Willis quits acting due to aphasia diagnosis

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Facebook postThe actor was diagnosed with aphasia, his family announced. “To Bruce’s amazing supporters, as a family we wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities,” his family wrote in a joint statement to social media,

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[turtleisland]

Oh, no. I'm so sorry to him and his family that they're going through this.

[scriptedending]

There have been rumors about him having health issues for a while - awful to hear that they're true. I can't imagine how frustrating that must be for the person experiencing it.

[xorogueox]

Yeah the movie subreddit has been discussing his apparent cognitive decline for the past year. I figured they were just being snide assholes when mocking his most recent movies.

Either way this is awful and I wish him and family all the best. I’ve worked with patients with aphasia (mostly post stroke) and seeing their complete frustration in trying to communicate, or their despondency when they find ppl don’t have the patience to wait them out. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

[dragonheart97]

My mother had this after a brain bleed that was right in the speech center of her brain. When she had the bleed at first she couldn't talk at all, and then was talking in gibberish. That all continued until the swelling in her brain went down, but the whole time she was trying to write and talk. (She could still do her word search puzzles; she recognized words, just couldn't write or speak them correctly.) She substituted words as she worked thru it (license when she meant nurse, cleats for slippers are two I remember). She regained about 99% of her speech, but when she was tired or had one of the minor seizures she would have for the rest of her life, she'd go totally aphasic again and we'd be afraid she was having another bleed or stroke until it subsided. It's scary stuff especially when you're on the outside looking in.

[polaroidmoment]

I was literally reading a thread on movies this morning where they were talking about this, I was a bit taken aback when I saw this a few hours later. The commenters I saw were saying he was taking whatever projects he could to earn as much money as possible before he had to stop working. Apparently wanted to make sure his family was set up when he stopped working.

[fauxkaren]

This sounds like a devastating diagnosis. I can't imagine dealing with something like that.

[ty]

I'd want assisted suicide.

[justbolognese]

Wtf kind of comment is that

[joyriders]

an honest one? idk. they didn't say anybody else should want that, they said they would want that. we euthanize animals when their quality of life suffers, why can't humans also decide if they want to die with dignity due to a terminal or degenerative health condition?

[celja]

That's sad.

[shangri__la]

This is really sad.