Terry Gross
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Would it be triggering if I asked you to describe it?
That post-traumatic stress.
Well, you said that even in the Pashto language, there's no word for anxiety.
So it must have been really terrifying.
And also, did it challenge your own identity?
You'd always thought of yourself as like, I'm really brave.
Everybody tells me I'm brave.
I don't remember the experience of being shot.
And suddenly you were afraid to go to sleep.
You were afraid to dream.
You were afraid of a lot of things.
How did it challenge your sense of yourself?
Do you still have flashbacks and panic attacks?
So you go to Oxford University.
You're still recovering from surgeries.
There's still more surgeries to come.
You were schooled at first in your father's school in a fairly remote region of Pakistan.
You didn't get the kind of education that most Oxford students get.