My great Aunt had it, but I think because she was diagnosed with it when I was quite young and I don't remember her being healthy it was something I was just always used to.
She'd constantly forget my name and get me and my brother confused, forget our ages, and it seemed like every time we spoke we were having the same 15 minute conversation over and over on a loop. Somehow I had a lot of patience with it though and rarely felt burdened talking to her, in the early stages at least. When she got worse it got harder to be around, but mostly because I just hated seeing her deteriorating and losing her ability to have any meaningful conversation at all. She eventually passed on when I was 17 (quite a long time after she was diagnosed actually, she lived for ages).
She'd constantly forget my name and get me and my brother confused, forget our ages, and it seemed like every time we spoke we were having the same 15 minute conversation over and over on a loop. Somehow I had a lot of patience with it though and rarely felt burdened talking to her, in the early stages at least. When she got worse it got harder to be around, but mostly because I just hated seeing her deteriorating and losing her ability to have any meaningful conversation at all. She eventually passed on when I was 17 (quite a long time after she was diagnosed actually, she lived for ages).
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
