CHAIRSHOT BRAIN DAMAGE EXPLANATION (Patreon)

With some people seemingly upset about my memory failings, as with today's Bleach episode, I thought I would take a moment to explain why this type of thing (Forgetting what Zangetsu looks like) will always be an occasional occurrence for me:

The Post-Concussion Syndrome sucks, but it's something that, for the most part, is just an inconvenience. How it works is really weird, though. In day-to-day routine, it makes remembering things from moment to moment a challenge. However, most stuff - if repeated enough - will eventually stick. That's why I don't forget things as continuous as, for instance, the name Monkey D. Luffy.

The downside is, there are certain details which, completely inexplicably, escape me. For instance, remembering SharkBoy Day Walker's real name. (Kisame, I had to look it up.)  :-D

Beyond that are the moments that REALLY frustrate me. Every so often, I will have what I call "black spells". This is when whatever I'm hearing or experiencing simply vanishes. Sometimes the memories caught up in this will last for a a day, sometimes, a few hours and other times a matter of minutes. These are the ones that piss me off and make me understand that someday I might end up sitting in a corner, nodding and drooling... Scary, but it is what it is.

The way I can tell the difference between these "black spells" and the normal memory inconsistencies is because the stuff from those blackouts absolutely doesn't exist to me. Typically, when I forget something like Zangetsu, as soon as you guys mention it, the memory comes back and I'm like "Oh yea! Shit!" -- In this case, that memory was entirely gone. I had to go back through episodes, just so I could see that I had, indeed, experienced him before... Those types of memory loss really frustrate me.

I just thought I'd try to explain this to you guys, just so you understand that, sometimes, I'm just gonna be blanked out on a specific memory. Fortunately, so far, it doesn't happen a whole lot, but this was one of those ominous moments that makes me wonder if I might have a black hole for a future... I hope not.

This isn't something I talk about a lot. My wife knows of the issues, but it scares her to think about, so I typically keep it to myself. We've become clearly a family here at The GOOSH, and so I thought it appropriate - and kinda cathartic - to talk to you guys about it.  :-)