Why is everyone being so mean?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Gary Busey
paperbag_princess — 17 years ago(May 05, 2008 02:17 PM)
I'm not sure if everyone is aware of this, but he has permanent brain damage. He fell off his motorcycle in 1988 and he wasnt wearing a helmet. He cant help the way he acts, so stop talking about how weird and messed up he is. It's rude.
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NateWatchesCoolMovies — 17 years ago(May 05, 2008 02:45 PM)
If you are refering to my previous post, just know that I mean nothing rude or insensitive by it, and I love Gary!!!!!!! He is one of my favorite actors,and I am aware of his accident. I do, however find his antics funny, like a lot of other people, but we have a lot of respect and admiration for him at the same time!
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lin_weath — 17 years ago(June 01, 2008 05:12 AM)
I've been replying to several posts trying to educate people about traumatic head injuries. Some people are just too ignorant to get the facts. I have a close friend who is a THI (short for traumatic head injury) and people have nicknamed him Crazy Rick. These people, too, are too stupid to realize that his off-the-wall antics, like Busey's, are the result of a brain injury and are no fault of his own. Thanks for being one of the few posters with some sense.
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afamouspetty — 14 years ago(November 11, 2011 09:24 PM)
Thank you! my son has that and they claim he is autistic now It really sucks cause everyone calls him crazy and a lot of other stuff and all these butt heads at his school pick on him. I'm glad some people take the time to help others GET it and God forbid they or their family end up with a problem, then it won't be so funny to them!
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boxy_darko_dragon — 17 years ago(June 28, 2008 09:03 PM)
I know he had a brain injury and all of that - I'm not one of those people who're making fun of him or anything. He is very interesting to observe though. Do you know what he's done before the accident at all or what he acted like before? I'm just curious if there are any interviews or anything out there where you can compare his behavior.
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musicallemon — 12 years ago(September 19, 2013 03:06 PM)
After his brain injury his interviews are the same. He has always been known as crazy because of his eccentric behavior even before the accident. I'm a fangirl with a bunch of newspaper, magazine clippings, some recorded interviews, photos, and have seen almost all of his movies (working on it).
Post-TBI Busey clips:
David Letterman 1990:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMURD17Jeok
With Howard Stern on a comedy skit about Traumatic Brain Injuries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpHfYmlnLA4
Singing 'Stay All Night' on Letterman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwNSXNXA3nU
From 'Surviving the Game' 1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-nVb0JaKJY
He was fine after his accident. If you watch his films from 1990-onward he doesn't act any different thanb68 before. It wasn't until he got older I believe that he became more outspoken. Which incidentally, I consider Gary to be normal and everyone else is just nuts & NOT the Buseyism for nuts either. How they point out other people's business to cover their own shortcomings is a mental illness. If the public did more reading, they'd realize how abnormal they are. Issue is most of the haters won't set one foot into a psych's office. It feels better to sit atop that phony pedestal they've created for themselves. -
HanneliJr — 17 years ago(August 24, 2008 07:11 AM)
Part of what you said contradicts the OP.
To make fun of someone because of their differences if not PC, and you implied the people are, the rest fits right though.
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BrainGremlin — 14 years ago(October 22, 2011 12:42 PM)
Yes, I agree with Bohemianism. Do you even know what PC stands for? It does not fit this
at all
. To pick on someone because of how different they are is anything but PC; someone who's PC (politically correct) would tell everyone to STOP picking on him and treat him as an equal, because he can't help his state and it's just mean and demoralizing. Basically the OP.
I've never seen the term used so wrong before.
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raindog517 — 17 years ago(October 28, 2008 08:57 AM)
I think he probably was always a bit "off" but look at this 1990 spot on letterman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAmUp4BTfqQ&feature=related
He's pretty animated, but not quite as all over the place. Could be a function of aging.
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angelofdeath275 — 17 years ago(November 06, 2008 07:18 PM)
"It is true that severe head trauma impacts a person's personality, but you making a post telling people to stop making fun of him won't do anything. It was stupid of him to not wear a helmet anyway. "
Yeah, because just letting the insults go on would be a-ok amirite?
Never say:- Ur just jealous of
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Ace_Moonshot — 17 years ago(November 14, 2008 01:34 AM)
He was always hyper. And fond of mugging for the camera. And drugs are nothing new. But after the head trauma he changed. A lot.
My father had Organic Mental Illness. He was also an alcoholic prior to the accident that cost him so much of his brain. So I can understand Gary. Poor guy.
Why settle for the lesser of two evils? Vote Cthulhu! -
Brunette_Beauty1 — 17 years ago(January 06, 2009 05:21 PM)
its awful that people are being so ignorant. He isn't a horrible person, he isn't a murderer, he isn't hurting anyone, yet people are so ignorant, when they dont even know the facts about his trauma. He hasn't been acting THAT bad lately, he seems to be energetic, friendly, and eccentric, but people are so quick to judge him, calling him crazy and weird and a loser for the way his personality has changed, yet they don't know the details. It is amazing how ignorant,condesending pricks people have become in this society its sad.
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Ace_Moonshot — 17 years ago(January 06, 2009 06:58 PM)
It
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awful. But ignorance is excusable in a way. It is those who know but still think it is funny to be stupid annoy me.
As I said, my father had brain damage. A veteran of WWII, Korea and Vietnam, he deserved a better type of 'latter years.' And when I heard him being slighted it was time to tour fist city. But even then, he was wise enough to teach me I should just pity those idiots.
Why settle for the lesser of two evils? Vote Cthulhu!