Explaining a stroke to a five year old

Recently, my nephew asked me what was wrong with me. His mother had been telling him that my instructions got hurt. I went on to say that your brain is like a computer full of instructions for everything that your body does and when your brain gets hurt some of those instructions get damaged and the brain has to find new ways to access the body parts that aren’t working, and the brain takes a very long time to find them.

Depending on how much damage to the brain there was, you can have a full recovery, or you might just partly recover? That’s why I try to exercise my brain as much as possible.

It’s important to keep learning so your brain will be nice and strong and tough to damage.

He went outside to think, and about 15 minutes later he came back and said that he’s sorry my instructions got damaged.

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