Woman with dystonia can only walk backwards

ConnieKimchi 11:34 am Fri Oct 23, 2009

Boing Boing guestblogger Connie Choe is a health and culture writer by day and a professional kimchimonger by night.

This video about a young woman who suffers from dystonia
and can only walk backwards is really interesting, but I offer it up with a
sprinkling of disclaimers. 1. It's a clip from the evening news, so naturally
it reeks of sensationalism. 2. This shouldn't necessarily discourage you from
getting the flu vaccine. 3. Some numbskull tweaked about a second of this video
so that it sounds like the reporter is saying this should discourage you from getting the flu vaccine.

If you want to explore some neurological case studies that represent patients as actual people, rather than as tragic spectacles, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks is a great read.

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