A mentally disabled man will be reunited with his family after having been missing for 30 years and forgetting his own identity:
A Canadian man who disappeared 30 years ago is set to be reunited with his family after remembering his identity, Canadian media reported. Edgar Latulip was 21 when he went missing from a home for disabled people in Ontario province. He boarded a bus, but soon after suffered a head injury that police believe robbed him of his memory.
Mr Latulip lived in the Niagara region under a different identity for decades before experiencing flashbacks. He told a social worker who checked the name Latulip and discovered it was the subject of a missing person investigation. A DNA test confirmed his true identity.
[...] His mother, Ottawa resident Sylvia Wilson told the Record she was "blown away" by the news. Mr Latulip has the mental age of a 12-year-old, according to the North American Missing Person Network. Ms Wilson said she had a difficult relationship with her eldest child, but told the Record: "I want to talk to him and help him out any way I can. I just want to see him."
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2016, @05:08AM
If only he weren't Canadian, eh? Obamacare would have fixed him right up! by injecting the contents of his NSA file directly into his brain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2016, @06:38AM
I recently saw this documentary about someone choosing to forget half their life after being inside a cockroach for a few minutes. he then proceeded to reunite with his old sweetheart, believing that he had been in a coma.
are we sure this is not what happened here as well?
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday February 14 2016, @08:25PM
These things aren't entirely unheard of. 30 years is rather remarkable, however. I believe this is an instance of disassociative fugue [wikipedia.org]. That article lists several other cases.
(Score: 2) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday February 14 2016, @08:29PM
Bad form to reply to oneself, but I just remembered a depiction in popular fiction: Batman the Animated Series [wikipedia.org] S01E08 “The Forgotten.”
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2016, @08:34AM
How would you get a social security number to be allowed to work, open a bank account and send your children to school if you lost any connection to your identity?
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Sunday February 14 2016, @08:44AM
Easy, you buy a new SSN and identity. You even get to pick, would you like to be a black straight Christian female or a gay white Jewish male?
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2016, @10:09AM
If this could happen, what if Ethanol_Fueled comes out of his self-induced delerium enough remember his true identity, and goes home to his real family? What will we do without him? Oh, yeah, what was I thinking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2016, @10:37AM
"What do I do now that I'm sober?"
"Have some breakfast. Breakfast, of course, being a bottle of gin."
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2016, @12:02PM
Do you masturbate to scenarios involving Ethanol-Fueled?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 14 2016, @11:12AM
30 years ago, they had radio. They had police networks. They had child welfare. They had everything we have today, except for huge social networks. The internet was in it's infancy, but it existed.
Fully functioning, rational adults can have a hard time "getting lost" even when they are trying to get lost.
30 years ago, someone failed. Someone failed to put out a notice, "Be on the lookout for a mentally challenged youngster". Or, someone failed to take notice of the bulletin.
Take notice of my nickname. I am the runaway, after all. I managed to stay "lost" for all of one summer. I only managed that by staying in the woods. Going into town would mean someone saw me, and someone might recognize me. Someone would ask questions. I might trigger a cop's interest. I stayed in the woods, and even so, I was "found" on a holiday weekend, when everyone else came out into the parks and picnic areas.
If people are actually looking for you, it's difficult to stay lost, even when that is your intention.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 14 2016, @02:34PM
Let's attribute this to Canada's low population density and high politeness.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2016, @04:07PM
I once hit my head pretty bad. While I never saw a doctor about it I was very forgetful for a quite a long period of time. While I'm much better now even today I still find myself a little forgetful from the incident.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 14 2016, @09:10PM
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