I soon realized that everything I’d read about Alzheimer’s was written from the perspective of an outsider looking in—scientists, physicians, caregivers, social workers. My education lacked the point of view of the person with Alzheimer’s and an answer to this question: What does it feel like to have Alzheimer’s? I remember my AHA moment, the idea that fiction would be the place to find the answer. Stories give us the chance to feel what someone else is feeling, to walk in someone else’s shoes, to see ourselves in the other. Still Alice was my quest for empathy, for understanding what it feels
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