Deliberate or just losing his mind?

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    My Dad had frontotemporal dementia. My sibling and I had to deal with the consequences - until we couldn’t cope, when my Dad became properly violent.

    We’re looking at Trump and let me tell you, it feels eerily familiar. The confusion, remembering stuff from the past but not the present, but most importantly - and that’s one of the defining traits of frontotemporal dementia - the constant aggressivity that stems from the sufferer’s incorrect world views and beliefs being at odds with a reality that everybody keeps reminding him of, that leads him to believe everybody is against him… When it gets bad enough, the person literally assaults people who contradict him out of frustration. Ask me how I know…

    We see the signs in Trump. Clear as day. And I bet everybody who’s had to deal with a parent who had dementia sees the signs too.

    The difference is, our Dad wasn’t a sitting US president with a penchant for fascism and autocracy. He was a random dude and he was institutionalized before he could harm other people.

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      I bet everybody who’s had to deal with a parent who had dementia sees the signs too.

      Same feeling: the rambling, the way he seeks acknowledgement, but more than anything the unfiltered hate he manifests. To me, it’s absolutely clear that he has an initial form of dementia.

    • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      That’s tough man. Sorry you lost your dad that way. Death of the person before the physical bodies passes is hard to handle.

      Hope you and your family are okay now.

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      My dad had dementia. I had just started my first job states away when he got really bad. Coming home every month to find a new part of him removed. Was only 62. Went downhill quickly.

      I made my wife promise me she’d assist in suicide if I ever got like that. I never want my kid or her to experience that.

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      Sorry about your experience but I’ve been hearing about his mental/physical health decline since probably the day he was elected. The Trump era has been seemingly hours from over every day for the last ten years.

      I’ll believe it’s over when he’s gone.

      And, unfortunately, at this point I feel like MAGA is actually bigger than him.