Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease referenced by a 23-year-old former football player who developed the condition after playing tackle football from age 8 to 14.
"I used to literally beat the shit out of myself (I have slammed my head into a hardwood floor on purpose before when I was angry) but I stopped because as bad as this experience is, being a barely conscious vegetable or getting CTE would be far worse."
"At age 20 my cognitive abilities began to go, and they've slowly gotten worse. I'm diagnosed with probable CTE and there is literally nothing left for me in this life."
"It's getting harder for me to maintain a fond, nostalgic feeling for Jackass every time I see Johnny Knoxville stumbling and slurring his way through interviews now. I used to love football and UFC too. The existential horror of a neurodegenerative disease (easily the worst fate) really puts a dampe"