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How brain implants complicate the meaning of being yourself

I got a neural implant to help with my ADHD and it works perfectly but my friends say I am boring now and I do not know if that is because I am finally myself or because I am not myself at all.

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You are wrestling with the paradox that fixing what feels broken might also fix what makes you uniquely you.

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