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Stuart Matan Lithwick

Stuart Matan Lithwick

Bioinformatician, neurobiologist, science educator and vocal blindness advocate living with Retinitis Pigmentosa.

Jul 10, 2026

2:15
What were your early childhood memories like from age zero to six?
2:19
I... had a really enjoyable childhood where I had the space to really just be myself and explore things um that said I was let's just say not the most extroverted child at the time I was really self-conscious about how people were seeing me and how I was portraying myself but you know, even so, while I wouldn't be that social with people, I would still love to explore the world around me and I was really curious about all the different aspects of the world I was in and I would, you know, explore all the environments I was in and, you know, I really loved having the chance to do that.
2:57
My parents were really supportive of that and they liked giving me the chance to just see what I was into and, you know, try lots of different things.
3:06
Music was almost immediately something that I really took to because I was always an artistic kind of child.
3:14
I was getting to things.
3:15
Music is one thing I really gravitated to, but I was just really curious.
3:19
Like, as you said, like really curious about the world around me and wanted to get to know it and try to just explore and use my imagination.

9 MINS LATER

12:50
yeah

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