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Bruce Willis is taking a break from acting due to a brain disorder called aphasia 'impacting his cognitive abilities,' his family says. It steals a person's ability to communicate, making it difficult to write or speak or even understand what others say.

Bruce Willis is taking a break from acting due to a brain disorder called aphasia,"which is impacting his cognitive abilities," his family announced Wednesday.

Burnout may be changing your brain. Here's what to do"As a result of this and with much consideration Bruce is stepping away from the career that has meant so much to him," his daughter Rumer Willis wrote on social media.You may have never heard of aphasia, but the brain disorder is"more common than Parkinson's Disease, cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy," and affects some 2 million Americans, according to the National Aphasia Association.

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