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Comment by robocat

3 days ago

Brain surgery can leave you without the ability to detect something is missing.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anosognosia

  Anosognosia is relatively common following different causes of brain injury

 The condition does not seem to be directly related to sensory loss but is thought to be caused by damage to higher level neurocognitive processes

Also Meningioma explained: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningioma

This was 15 years ago, but he seemed to have all his faculties in order. The major change we saw was for about 3 to 6 months after the surgery he would lose his temper at the slightest thing. He was basically impossible to live with and then all of that just went away and he went back to being very normal.