I woke up gay- BBC3

[didldidi]

So everyone and his dog (bar 1) is saying it's unlikely that his stroke "made him gay" yet he seems desperate to prove it. Clearly can't come to terms with it

As far as I understand it, strokes can change a person's ability to repress things that they would otherwise hold back. I have always felt it possible that a man I know was gay or bisexual. As a teen, he did actually say as much to his parents who are very religious and totally against homosexuality. He later decided tat he was heterosexual, although I and many others remain unconvinced. Could it be that the stroke just altered his inhibitions?

Saw about half of this on repeat before I fell asleep last night. I don't get how they say in one breath that it can change any aspect of your personailty but in the next that this cannot possibly have happened may have over generalised here

Well its well known that other brain trauma can cause personality changes so don't see why it isn't possible...

It's repeated tonight.

But surely being gay isn't just part of your personality? So you could become camp but not gay. That's how I see it anyway. Plus if he can't remember before the stroke then how does he know he wasn't gay but hiding it?

That's what I wondering.

ok sorry, I know personality wasn't the right word, more that areas of the brain get changed and function differently?

Frillymilly, yes that hadn't occurred to me, but it's a very valid point.

Yes I thought it odd though that he had instant recollection of all the girlfriends names.

I just don't get how asking someone who used to know him if he seemed gay before was really relevant. I know some people who are gay who at school you would never have guessed where gay. Maybe all his womanising was him trying to hide how he really felt. Why does he need to validate that he was straight before? If he's now in a relationship and happy then what difference does it make. I would imagine it could be quite upsetting for his partner.

I can't see why its not impossible. The brain is a strange organ and after damage it can wire itself up differently to how it was before. Certainly brain damage can cause other personality changes.