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A vibrant mind, hidden in plain sight.

On the outside, I looked empty. Yet on the inside, I was very much alive.

I'm Megacharabardi, and this is episode two of our special series, Brainwaves.

I thought a lot about life, about death, about love, about the future, and I felt deeply.

But nobody else knew it. Nobody at all knew that Martin Pistorius was experiencing

those surging waves of human emotions. Absolutely no one at all. Because for 13 years, everyone around Martin saw only an unconscious body on a bed.

First a boy, then a man, cut off from all human experience,

showing no signs of motion or awareness or consciousness whatsoever.

Just stillness.

That disconnect between who I was inside and how I was seen outside was devastating.

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