Blackmist ,

Itchy... Tasty...

Raiderkev ,

Reminds me of my friend who wouldn't go to the hospital immediately after getting hit in a rear end collision. He finally went a few days later when he started to lose feeling in his face and extremities. Turns out his neck was broken. Now he's got brain damage and a lot of motor issues. But hey, he's likely going to get paid from the insurance co. I told him to go straight to the hospital when he called about getting hit.

Stern ,
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Sincerely hope thats creative fiction and that there isn't someone who cracked their skull and thinks losing motor control is normal and okay.

CodexArcanum ,

I started to feel bad for the person with a concussion and gangrenous untreated wound, but then they pivoted to whether they could now acceptably creep on dead girls, and I just see a problem that's about to solve itself.

scoobford ,

To be fair, they may be brain damaged.

People say all kinds of crazy shit after a good head wound. My partner fell off a staircase a few months ago and asked me why I was letting the government put roaches under the bathroom sink.

thefartographer ,

So, did you have a good reason for letting them do that?

ggppjj ,

Eh, if we had good data on what they were like before the incident, maybe.

This is all with the firm understanding that this $100% happened.

CodexArcanum ,

Oh yes, we're all operating in full knowledge that greentexts are 💯 percent truth.

But yeah, if this very real person did have a concussion they might also be having personality shift because of it. A good thing to keep in mind if you are dealing with a person who's had a big head smash.

thefartographer ,

a big head smash

"Yeah, I'm worried about my friend's personality shift. He doesn't want to breathe and have a round head like he used to love doing."

sp3tr4l ,

I knew someone from an FLDS family.

(For those who don't know, FLDS is a fundamentalist branch of the Mormons that are basically an insanely oppressive and abusive cult. They still do polygamy!)

She's extremely mentally ill and I am not friends with her anymore, but this is about her now deceased brother:

When he was about 2, he fell, head first, onto a rusty nail. Mom decided the medical solution to this was neosporin and a bandaid.

It went about a bit less than an inch into his brain.

He grew up extremely unable to regulate emotions, did violent dangerous things all the time, unfortunately killed himself a year back.

Point of me saying this is: Shit like this absolutely happens.

I feel like a whole lot of people who end up on 4chan are quite likely to be seriously neglected and abused.

I can very easily see a person with serious damage like this not being taken seriously and even assaulted by their parents for mentioning it.

They likely can't get to a hospital on their own, and would be screamed at more if parents found out they went.

So, post on 4chan.

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