Kingsdaughter613 she/her Posted December 21, 2020 Posted December 21, 2020 On 12/18/2020 at 10:11 AM, Koloss17 said: You gotta be careful with that right there. Dabbid has a mental disorder. Some might say that that is not something to be ‘fixed’. Now, if you are talking about stormlight healing, that is based off of spiritual identity. I think it’s safe to say that Dabbid wants what he sees as his stupidity gone. Dabbid has brain damage. The book was very clear on this. That is a TBI, not a mental disorder.
+robardin he/him Posted December 21, 2020 Posted December 21, 2020 8 hours ago, Kingsdaughter613 said: Dabbid has brain damage. The book was very clear on this. That is a TBI, not a mental disorder. Well, yes and no. Dabbid recalls that he was always this way from childhood - it wasn't his bridgerunning injury that caused him to "go catatonic" as Kaladin had thought. We have a kind of Dabbid POV in Ch. 85 of Rhythm of War, and he clearly thinks to himself: "Dabbid had been different all his life. ... The surgeons hadn't been able to say the reason." The midwife that birthed him said later that he had been born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and speculated if that might have done damage to him to cause him to be "six when he started talking" and how he "still couldn't do adding in his head"... But I am not sure if Stormlight would heal a lifelong, since-birth condition, even if it was traumatic and not congenital.
Kingsdaughter613 she/her Posted December 21, 2020 Posted December 21, 2020 7 minutes ago, robardin said: Well, yes and no. Dabbid recalls that he was always this way from childhood - it wasn't his bridgerunning injury that caused him to "go catatonic" as Kaladin had thought. We have a kind of Dabbid POV in Ch. 85 of Rhythm of War, and he clearly thinks to himself: "Dabbid had been different all his life. ... The surgeons hadn't been able to say the reason." The midwife that birthed him said later that he had been born with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and speculated if that might have done damage to him to cause him to be "six when he started talking" and how he "still couldn't do adding in his head"... But I am not sure if Stormlight would heal a lifelong, since-birth condition, even if it was traumatic and not congenital. The Sibling said the damage would heal because Dabbid wasn’t born that way, so... It sounds like he has cerebral palsy caused by oxygen deprivation at birth. 1
Koloss17 She/They Posted December 21, 2020 Posted December 21, 2020 9 minutes ago, Kingsdaughter613 said: The Sibling said the damage would heal because Dabbid wasn’t born that way, so... It sounds like he has cerebral palsy caused by oxygen deprivation at birth. Good catch! Yeah, that’s probably it!
Kingsdaughter613 she/her Posted December 22, 2020 Posted December 22, 2020 31 minutes ago, Koloss17 said: Good catch! Yeah, that’s probably it! My older daughter has brain damage from encephalitis which cut off the flow of oxygen to her brain at two months. So it stood out to me a bit more than it would for most.
Shob the Voidbringer Posted January 6, 2021 Posted January 6, 2021 on the coppermind it says that a radiant's healing is taking how they perceive them self, and matches their spiritual and physical selves to it, so as long as Dabbid doesn't see that as part of himself, which we know he doesn't, he should be able to heal from it
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