Nancy says:(N)not so funny is the theme that several bloggers have taken to dub Castle as frail and doddering, I just don’t think it serves us well to mislead here.
My feelings?
Although Castle appears to be normal his voting record and the glaring disconnect between his votes and his statements beg the question – is he healthy?
According to google his looks might be deceiving. It turns out that 30% of all thalamic stroke patients showed late onset memory impairment. 15% experienced involuntary movements and spontaneous pain and a smaller number of thalamic stroke patients (4%) developed serve time disorientation.
According to the literature, the long term neurobehavioral problems related to the type of Stroke Castle suffered consist mainly of apathy, indifference, poor motivation, and flattened affect.
The “flattened affect” could turn into a significant problem for Castle since his baseline affect is so flat as to appear concave.