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How genetic knowledge creates anticipatory identity crisis

I'm 52 and I just learned I have the gene for early-onset Alzheimer's and now every time I forget where I put my keys I wonder if it's starting.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Knowing future risk transforms present experience into constant diagnostic self-surveillance.

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