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Ben Platts-Mills

Writer, London

Ben Platts-Mills is a writer and artist based in the UK. Between 2013 and 2016, he led Who Are You Now?, a life-writing project that published the stories of brain-injury survivors. His memoir Tell Me the Planets was published in 2018. On Instagram, he is @benplattsmills.

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Abstract painting of a blurred urban scene with teal and orange hues depicting moving silhouettes in a cityscape.

The self

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Memory involves the whole body. It’s how the self defies amnesia

People with anterograde amnesia can’t rely on memory alone for their sense of self. Instead, they remember with their body

by Ben Platts-Mills

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