#alzhimers

[brittforadayblog]

His Name is Will

I used the painting "Erased Self-Portrait (1999)" by William Utermohlen and personal experiences with my grandpa to write this story. This story is mostly fiction. There was a man named Will or at least William who loved to paint.

This is a prose piece that I wrote for a media literacies class of mine. I took the class during the 2022 Fall Semester. The assignment was to take a photo and analyze it and then write a short story based on the photo. This story had to be fiction. So I used the painting “Erased Self-Portrait (1999)” by William Utermohlen and personal experiences with my grandpa to write this story. This story…

[yb-cringe]

feel like Memory issues are not as cut and dry as "i forgo" yknow? ? or maybe it is but im just mislabelling. like for me memory issues or dissociative amnesia is like Levels yknow.

The memory of the thing is there but it's got the same feeling as watching a tv show. I've got no actual attachment or emotions to it, it just happened. i can't tell you what i was feeling or thinking or what i did rly. and even then the memory of it is Short

I know I Did the Thing but I have no reason why. I know I did it. But I have nooo memories of how or why that thing has been done. no one TOLD me i did it. its not an immediate cause for panic its just very uncanny valley. like yeah i definitely bought that. i have no idea where it came from though.

Absolute Black Out. someone says I did a thing and I remember NOTHING of it. one of those "just smile and nod" moments of yeahyeah i remember this i swear !! <- the forgeterrrrr

[factcorelabs]

i came here to say something and i forgor what to say...

[pastrytown]

the thing i didnt think about when i started to transition is the fact that my grandmothers wont hear the voice they rememer, see the face they remember. My Nana went blind and she couldn't recognize the voice telling her how much I love her. and my grandmother kept asking me who I was. I kept repeating I love you I love you I love you. You are loved. and its.

[redeemed-wren]

Okay we're back in it with the This is Us binge. I was having some drama fatigue with the middle of season 4, everything was going wrong and no one seemed to want to do anything to fix it, but things are getting better again.

[covid-safer-hotties]

what does aging the brain by up to ten years mean?

is the "age" of a brain not just the same as the age of the body?

is it like, a lifespan thing?

it sounds scary and bad but i have no clue what it actually entails

While your brain *is* in your body, it is isolated by a special barrier like a server administrator might isolate their profile from the others for security reasons. Brain aging is a process that's difficult to sum up succinctly, but think of it like this: each year of your life, your brain loses some mass (typically no more than 1% and usually a bit less). Some of this is the natural process of growing older, as after a point, you run out of the cells that make new neurons and the neurons you have stop growing. When they die, it causes the loss of mass. Some of this is from damage (e.g. binge drinkers tend to have faster brain aging than say pious Muslims). Some brain aging results in conditions like dementia and alzhimer's. Covid has been shown to do at least one or two years worth of damage to the brain, even in asymptomatic cases. Some who have a bad reaction to covid's lasting immune effects, a very severe case, or have had covid many times show a loss of brain mass equivalent to ten or twenty years of natural aging. This is almost the same thing as rapid onset dementia when viewed by neurologists. They're still figuring out the exact process, risk-factors and biomarkers, but the end result is clear: even a "mild" or asymptomatic case of covid does damage directly to your brain, and the effects stack. You need to do your best to keep yourself safe from covid by masking in a high quality respirator (especially in public), distancing when you can (attending via Webcam, for example), improving air filtration and ventilation, and assuring those around you adopt some of these behaviors (all would be nice, but this is the era of "you do you" public health). Rapid tests can help you assess when someone has a high viral load and you shouldn't, for example, invite them over for movie night.

[smooshednetwork]

adventure time is so weird like wdym this 20/30 something year old is hanging around this 12 year old boy and regularly beating up an elderly kidnapper with alzhimers

[seaweedoverlord]

Reincarnation in fiction always makes you remember everything instantly, but consider what if it was more like this:

Reverse Alzhimer.

Instead of forgetting things slowly, starting from the most recent memories, it's the opposite.

I wish there was more media that actually explored the concept of reincarnation in an interesting way.

Always knowing something is wrong, but not knowing what exactly, your thought process is being affected by experiences you technically never lived through and then having to face your new reality that doesn't fit those expectations. Remembering pieces in the wrong way and having to deal with that.

When someone goes through reincarnation in fiction, in their next life, they are suddenly a prodigy, but honestly, I think if anything, reincarnation would be more of like a liability. You would think you know things, you think you can take care of specific stuff like doing fucking taxes but youre 5 and technically you knew once but not anymore.

It's like trying a recipe you tried before but only once. You think you know how to do it, but when you actually try to without looking at the recipe, you just draw a blank and if you go through with it anyway you got somethings thats not quite wrong but not quite right either and all you're stuck with is the feeling you should know how to do it but being unable to. Is this making sense. I have no idea.

[myrammmortal]

Chapter 30, watch out for the Dork Mark!

AN: stop flaming da story ok u dnot no wutz even gona happen ok!1111 so FUL U!111 if u flam u wil be a prep so al flamerz kan kiss muh ass!111 soz 4 soz 4 sayin alzhimers is dongerous but datz da mysteries opinin koz sosiety basically sux. fangz 2 raven u rok bich!111

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“No!11” we screamed sadly. Snap stated loafing meanly. He took out a kamera anvilly. Then…………………… he came tords Richard!1! He took sum stones out of his poket. He put da stones around Richard and nit a candle.

“What the fuck r u doing!” I shooted arngrily. Snoop laughed meanly. He polled down his pants. I gasped- there was a Dork Mark on his you-know-wut!11!

He waved his wand and a nife came. He gave da knife 2 me.

“U must stab Vrompire.” he said to me. “If u don’t then I’ll rap Richard!1”

“No you fucking bastrad!1” I yielded.

But den Richard looked at me sadly with his evil goffik red eyes dat looked so depressant and sexy. He lookd exactly like a pentragram (lol geddit koz im a satanist) between Kurt Cobain and Gerard. But then I looked at Vampire and he looked so smexy too wif his goffik black hair. I thought of da time when we screwed and the time I did it with Richard and Daddy Till came and the tame where Richard almost commited suicide and Vampire wuz so sportive.

Snipe laughed angrily. He started to prey to Volxemort. He started to do an incapacitation dancing around the stokes whipping Richard and Vampire. Suddenly an idea I had. I clozd my eyes and using my vampire powers I sent a telepathetic massage to Richard and Vampire so they would destruct Snape.

“Daddy Till will get u!” Richard shooted.

“Yah just wait ubtil da Mystery find out!11” Vampire yelled. Meanwhile I took out my wand.

“You ridiculus dondderhed!111” Snoop yielded. He took off all of Richard’s clothes. Just as he was about to rape him…………………….

“Crosio!” I shited pointing my wound. Snoop scremed and started running around da room screming. Meanwhile I grabed my blak mobile and sent a txt 2 Serious. I stopped doing crucio.

“You dunderhed!111 Im going to kill-” shooted Snape but suddenly Flake came.

Snake put the whip behind his bak. “Oh hello Flake I wuz just teaching them sumthing.” he lied. "You do know I have been here all this time eating the delicious caramels, right?" Flake said. "I know this might be confusing to the reader so I will explain. I happen to have an evil twin and his name is Snape/Snake/Snoop (not that one). I'm just here and snacking on things because Till has told me I need to put on some weight. I do not condone whatever my evil twin is up to but I will just leave him to it." (Editors note: I'm sorry for that part but honest to the gods the story got very confusing here and this would be less confusing than the original where Snape is about to rape Draco and all that shit you just read but suddenly Severus came in. Somehow. I have questions too but at least now I have a chance to make Flake not a horrible person because he deserves better!).

But suddenly Lusian and Profesor Trevolry came in2 da room and they and Serious unlocked the chains and put dem around Snap. Then Profesor Trevolry said ‘Come on Paul Darkness Omnipotentia Alzheimer Birdflu Grand Mal Landers let’s go.” 

[heartofhubris-a]

ok so i think the issue I end up with when people argue "Older generations need time to learn they/them" "Older ppl love you, they just struggle with your identity!" "Love the sinner not the sin" type messages is... You could. Like these people, if they did care enough and love enough, easily could adjust their language. You can change your language if you want to.

that is to say, if they loved and cared enough, they would and could change it. If people cared, they would change their wording and not be an asshole.

Because that's what it ends up being. That's all it ends up being; if you care enough about a person you will change how you act and work accordingly. It doesn't matter if it's been 20 years of knowing a man with he/him pronouns, if you care about the fact she just came out as a woman, you'll fucking learn the new pronouns. If you love someone enough to be close that long, you'll love them enough to gender them correctly.

Genuinely the only people who have an actual excuse on misgendering and deadnaming are people with severe memory issues. Dementia, alzhimer's, those make sense. But so many cisgender people simple do not actually love the people they claim to.

[tosimornottosim]

Herse: “Livia.”

Herse: “He has early onset Alzhimers.”

Herse: “He isn’t going to get better.”

Livia: “...”

[pidgeinn]

that post about randomly remembering fanfic lines/plots is so real sometimes i’ll just be in the store or on the bus and be like “man remember that fic you read where they made saitama opm homophobic for no reason?” or “remember that fenhawke fic that went from them fucking while isabella was Right There, asleep, to fenris having alzhimers bc of his lyrium tattoos?”

[twowivestwoknives]

i’ve been masking for all 3years of the pandemic. I was avoiding getting covid so hard, i never wanted it for myself or for my loved ones. I didnt wanna kill anyone and I didnt wanna die. I got it despite my best fucking efforts in march of this year because mask mandates were lifted, and now theres no restrictions anywhere including in my workplace which is a building that a health authority works out of (im a healthcare worker)

im so terrified of what getting once is doing to my body. im already a cripple with deteriorating health, and this year it’s taken a spike. ive been scared to say but it went from me being in ER or urgent care once every couple of months to this last month twice in the past 2 weeks, im scared its getting worse. im scared for my loved ones who’ve had it once OR TWICE at this point,

i tried so hard not to get it and i did and now everything coming out about heart failure, strokes, early onset alzhimers im just. im so fucking scared. i tried so hard and now all i get to do is wait for however long to see what this did to me and then to hope i dont get it again but its literally not within my choice at this point. i wear an N95 everywhere indoors, in large crowds outdoors, im quadruple vaxxed, and it still wont mean shit if those around me just refuse.

I have to ride transit to get to work! i work in an office where nobody, not even the most “radical” (abolitionist, pro Black, pro Queer, /apparently/ pro disability justice bahahaha) ppl are going to giant parties or concerts and not masking there or in office.

i want to fucking cry, i dont want to watch me and my loves die in slow motion and i dont have a fucking choice.

[clickingkeyboards]

This is so real.

My aunt (and her daughter, who's 15 years older than me) were so cool to me when I was little. I wanted to spend every moment with them when they visited, sleep over at my aunt's, hear every single word about my cousin's work.

And at some point in my mid-teenage years, I became aware of two things:

That my aunt, being a therapist, spoke like one all the time.

That my aunt had moved two hours away just as my grandad was diagnosed with Alzhimers', and my mum was going crazy trying to care for him.

And at some point, I became the niece that said things like, "Oh, god FORBID she come and help you with Grandad!" and "Auntie, do you have to phrase everything like a therapist?"

With my cousin, the change was less sharp. Was it her becoming a mother, getting into a relationship, moving house? Unclear.

But at some point, I was no longer a child but not quite an adult in her eyes, and she became completely unreachable.

If you want to stay in the life of a teenager in your family, don't expect the time you spent with them as a kid to do the heavy lifting for you.

I know that a lot of you are banking on having little to do with your nephews/neices as children and then becoming their "cool aunt" once they become teenagers, but I think that you will find, upon analysis, that a random middle-aged woman stepping into a whole-ass teenager's life and arbitrarily declaring herself to be a "cool aunt" is, in fact, the least cool thing it's possible to do.

[cateyedfox36]

The life of a cat mom to an aged kitty: pancakes' was actually pretty perky today, prowling around for nip. But his alzhimers means he'll forget what he'd doing midway through. It's most concerning with food. He knows well feed him in the kitchen, so he'll get hungry and go in, I'll get his food ready and then bam! He'll forget he's hungry and just sit there. And his greedy ass orange bros will muscle up and eat his fancy food- tuna and bisque.

So I have to stand or sit there and watch him eat, keep reminding him too eat until he walks away.