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Joe Rogan's not stupid, he just had chronic traumatic encephalopathy from some injuries in his early twenties. Also he is an asshole.
Well, being as generous as possible, he says things a stupid person would say, with a high frequency. If that's due to tbi, I feel sorry for him, but he's still saying a lot of stupid stuff.
If someone says stupid stuff all the time, they are stupid. Doesn't matter if they have an excuse. Especially if the excuse is that they did something stupid that made them stupider.
I might be wrong, but I doubt that the TBI left him to be a different person than he was before.
My physics teacher had a TBI from a kart race accident that left him temporarily paralyzed and he had to relearn how walk and speak. People often assumed he was stupid or incapable because of the way he talked, but he was probably the brightest guy in that school by a long shot.
His mnemonics were also top notch. An example: Mnemonics are called "Eselsbrücke" in German (it literally translates to donkey bridge). When learning about harmonic motion, he asked us "What is the Latin word for donkey? That's right: asinus. A * sin(wt)". Genius.
Another one that I still use to this day: how to remember what is concave and what is convex? "If a girl has sex, her belly grows convex."
Nah man. TBIs can totally mess with your whole personality, cognitive abilities, everything to do with your brain. Maybe if you only get one traumatic event, it might not have the same consequences, but guys like Rogan and football players are repeatedly bashing their brains leading to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.
It really does depend on the parts of the brain damaged, and the severity.
A person can completely shift in behavior post tbi. And it absolutely can cause damage that impairs learning and thinking.
It's impossible to give real numbers because the last time I went looking, there wasn't enough research out there to properly break down the possible outcomes. That being said, I had a decent share of tbi patients over the years. That fact skews things, obviously; if they needed a caregiver, they had a more severe injury in the first place. But personality shifts were common, and functional capability varied greatly, even within the type of injuries that required caregivers after the fact.
It's frankly terrifying to run into the patients that are 100% there intellectually and awareness wise, but stuck with limited ability to communicate.
That's an odd route to go for remembering concave and convex considering concave has the word cave in it and makes a cave.
Speaking of caves, stalactites are the things hanging down, like saggy tits.