Nothing like looking at Caboose’s feet in an RVB short to check if he toe walks
AND HE DOES, BTW?? Shout out to these animators, I’m trying my best to diagnose the guy, he’s got a few different types of brain damage though
I got alot down in my notes app right now- his brain damage is from hypoxia and traumatic brain injury, mostly the hypoxia. He does have repeated head trauma throughout the show. He does not seem to heal from this.
He’s got hyposensitivity, for sure his pain perception is low, likely gives very strong hugs for the pressure. He has impaired language processing, emotional regulation issues (exaggerated emotions).
His brain damage didn’t cause muscle weakness, in fact, he is ridiculously strong. It did cause issues with gait, and motor control. When he picks things up in animation it’s very purposeful and focused, like it requires his whole body and attention to do something like pick up a flag. This is not due to muscle weakness, so is his ability to control his muscles is impaired?
He is shown to be able to control the level of his strength, but not the coordination of his body. He likely has issues dropping items, running into things, or multi tasking like with driving a vehicle.
Caboose has speech difficulties and language issues, he misinterprets words and phrases (often leads him to completing a task incorrectly, or having to be told something many times).
He talks without ease, though he doesn’t seem to struggle with specific sound, caboose emphasizes each word, has to pause sometimes to think on how to say something.
He does not have flat speech, he actually exaggerates his speech and movements due to having a heightened emotional state. He talks clearly, and can talk for long periods of time. So similarly, his lack of muscle weakness extends to his speech.
He may still have issued effectively using his tongue, but Cabooses speech difficulties appear to be linked to his language issues. He tends to say things that don’t make sense, even if it’s revealed later that what he meant was of sound thought (the way he presents a plan is nonsense, but his actual plan is functional)
Though his brain damage happened in adulthood, I like to think a large reason he copes well with his neurological impairments is because he had previously issues in his development. Maybe autism? maybe brain damage during or before birth, that turned mild as he grew up. That the brain injuries he went through in blood gulch caused his existing symptoms to worse or revert
I gotta write more
