Our psychology teacher, Mrs. Ramsey, pushes play and introduces us to Clive Wearing, a conductor and musician who, at age forty-six and the height of his career, contracted a viral infection that attacked and damaged his central nervous system. As a sophomore in high school, I’m familiar with the classic form of amnesia thanks to movies and daytime television, but the curtain over Wearing’s past was, and continues to be, accompanied by something my sixteen-year-old brain could hardly imagine: the inability to create new memories.
Who We Used to Be
Thank you, Michael.