Alan Alda Reveals His Illness

“I’ve acted, I’ve given talks, I help at the Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook, I started this new podcast. I noticed that I had been on television a lot in the last couple of weeks talking about the new podcast, and I could see my thumb twitch in some shots. And I thought, ‘It’s probably only a matter of time before somebody does a story about this from a sad point of view. But that’s not where I am.”

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Alda says he got tested after reading an article in The New York Times. “It indicated if you act out your dreams, there’s a good chance that might be a very early symptom, where nothing else shows,” he said. “By acting out your dreams, I mean I was having a dream that someone was attacking me and I threw a sack of potatoes at them. But what I was really doing was throwing a pillow at my wife!”
He adds that his approach is looking at the disease as something he can solve: “The main thing is there’s stuff you can do. You know how I look at it? It’s like a puzzle to be solved. What do I have to adapt to to carry on a normal life? And I enjoy solving puzzles. It’s really fun.”
Alda also shared his diagnosis on Twitter, and fans responded with a warm and effusive outpouring of love, calling him a “national treasure” and telling him he’s “got this.”

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Alan Alda Reveals His Illness

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