I find it does, and judging from few contributors, I am not alone in this view. I will say from the start, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI); like I experienced, is far from a 'funny' thing! Particularly for the family and friends of people who have had one! Memory problems, can have many negative repercussions, that leads almost inevitably to frustration, and depression and trouble making your opinion across.
Now I have regained confidence in communicating, I find people have found my 'stories' of memory experiences have usually been met fairly positively. I have only really been recounting tales for about 2 years post accident, my memory having vastly improved, and I became more confident with speaking.
I was in hospital for 6 months, visited by many colleagues. I used to be a fire fighter. My wife would tell me who had visited me, and kept a diary. She was telling me the people who had visited me, "Steve Whitehouse came".
"no sorry, doesn't ring a bell!"
A few days later when visited by other fire fighters, my wife asked if they could help me by trying to help me remember who it was. He was a former junior officer on my watch, and would have been well known to me. My colleagues gave me lots of information to try and spur my memory. When they said, "Come on mate, You must remember Sticky Whitepants" Then it all flooded back. The fire service, most people have a 'nikname', about the only thing 'London's Burning' got right!
Hope people will find this at least rather amusing. I will recount a some more another time. For now!
My humour got me through a lot and when some of my friends visited theirs was even more of a pick me up especially the times they basically took the **ss.
I was very lucky in that my memory was fine and amazed some them what I was bringing up and a big confidence boost for me by doing this.
I have got some very funny moments of my time in hospital...even as far as getting my hair cut in the toilets by my hairdresser friend...
Humour is and was an absolute life saver, at least it is for myself. I try to find humour in absolutely every aspect of life, it's a must.