According to the article, the disease seemed to have a very fast onset. The symptoms first really started to appear in October 2013, the mental fog got bad enough that he was unable to remember a single line for filming of Night at the Museum 3 in April 2014 (despite the fact that "just 3 years prior he had played in a full 5-month season of the Broadway production Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, often doing two shows a day with hundreds of lines—and not one mistake"), and had apparently experienced "all of the 40-plus symptoms of LBD" (including hallucinations) before the disease ultimately made him take his own life.
He had decades of experience spreading happiness to those he met (and those who simply saw his performances) before this cure-less disease stole his mind.
[–] Gorillion 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I remember Bobcat Goldthwaite said something about this:
Short version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpEYmIQbWro
Longer Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUSiTIUJgco
His thoughts were that it was mis-diagnosed as Parkinsons. So it's interesting to see Williams' wife saying it's Lewy Body now.
[–] ButtPlumber 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I'm not the only one who read "lewd body disease", right?
[–] monkeytennis 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I fucking called it.
LBD is similar to both parkinsons and alzheimers. Robin Williams had herpes for a long long time, and herpes has a potential link to the onset of neurological disorders.
Nothing proven yet afaik, but we anyone who posts under the shoutyourstatus hashtag needs to be thrown into a fire for helping spread a serious disease.
[–] RumpRangerRick 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
I'm wondering how much his cocaine abuse contributed to contracting the disease...
[–] HarveyHarveyJones ago
:o i never knew he hit the slopes. All this time.
[–] Gorillion 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
He used to have a whole routine about it. He and the street preacher guy on Mork & Mindy were coked up on screen constantly.