Okay, but what about Stan with narcolepsy?
He doesn’t develop the condition until his early 20s. It starts as just feeling more tired than usual. But slowly over weeks and months, he becomes more and more sleepy during the day, and taking naps is only helping briefly before the sleepiness returns.
It keeps progressing. He swears his eyes have been on the road the whole time but suddenly he jerks and realizes he’s swerved into the other lane. His dreams are vivid and sometimes when he’s falling asleep or just waking up he finds his body paralyzed.
The naps he used to voluntarily plan to take become involuntary. Stan finds himself just suddenly falling asleep sometimes no matter where he is. Sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes longer.
It freaks him out a bit. With his lifestyle, he can’t afford to just fall asleep suddenly, it’s not safe. Who knows what could happen to him while he’s vulnerable like that. Plus, driving becomes harder. Stan has so many near accidents that getting behind the wheel of his car starts making him anxious.
And he hates that. His car is his home, his escape. His life depends on it.
By the time Stan starts experiencing bouts of muscle weakness and loss of control when he experiences strong emotions, he knows he should see a doctor. The problem is he can’t afford one. He doesn’t know what to do, so he tries to handle (ignores) the problem as best he can.
And that’s how he ends up in the hospital after a bad car crash.
He fell asleep at the wheel, and the ensuing wreck totalled the Stanley mobile. Doctors tell him it’s a miracle he survived, but Stan can’t find much joy in that, knowing his only stable home—and everything he owned in it—is gone.
But it’s during his recovery in the hospital that Stan’s condition gets noticed, and he ends up diagnosed with narcolepsy. It’s also in hospital that he ends up reuniting with a twin brother he thought wanted nothing to do with him.
Ford’s phone number was found in his pocket, and the hospital had called Ford while it was uncertain whether or not Stan would pull through. They were trying to find relatives to contact in the case that Stan died.
Miraculously, he survived. Even more miraculously, Ford shows up, angry and panicked and worried about Stan. Stan almost can’t believe it. He hadn’t thought Ford would want anything to do with him ever again, but it turns out near-death experiences can make people change their mind about you.
Anyway, I don’t really know where else I’m going with this. But Ford takes Stan to live with him in Gravity Falls once he’s released from the hospital. Ford maybe becomes slightly paranoid of Stan ever driving again, considering what happened, but tries to help Stan deal with the narcolepsy as best he can.
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