#cognitive decline

[plague-parade]

i feel like we dont talk enough about how distressing and disturbing memory loss issues are. forgetting what you were talking about halfway through a sentence, putting something down and instantly forgetting where you put it. having to reread one paragraph over and over again because by the time youve moved onto the next sentence you dont remember what the one before it said. always doubting if your memories of things are real, not being able to remember important life events.

its so incredibly scary, it feels like your mind is constantly playing tricks on you and you start to doubt whats real and what isnt.

“i forgot” is treated like a lazy excuse when it’s genuinely such a big issue for so many people.

[contemplatingoutlander]

In this article,* a professor of clinical psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Dr. Richard A. Friedman, explains why he believes that during the Sept.10th debate, Trump showed alarming signs of cognitive decline, including incoherent, "repetitive," "circumstantial and tangential speech."

Dr. Friedman is clear that from a distance, he cannot diagnose Trump, but he recommends that Trump go through a full neuropsychiatric evaluation (NOT a brief mental-status exam) as soon as possible, especially given that Trump is running to take on the job of president/ commander in chief of one of the world's major superpowers.

When mainstream psychiatrists like Dr. Friedman start to express concern about Trump's cognitive functioning, it is time that the mainstream media begin to treat this as seriously as they did signs of Biden's cognitive decline.

[edited]

________________ *This is an Internet Archive copy of The Atlantic article, so you can read the entire article, even if you don't subscribe to The Atlantic.

[tomorrowusa]

Trump is certainly impaired and unfit.

Donald Trump's 'Cognitive Decline' Is Clear: Mary Trump

He's clearly hiding something.

Trump refuses to release medical records as concerns about him being the oldest possible president grow

What happened to all those Republicans who claimed Biden was too old?

Trump says he'd hire a CEO his age. Only a handful of top chief executives are older.

He couldn't even finish a puff piece interview at his own place with a MAGA fanboy.

‘Exhausted’ Trump Can’t Make It Through Interview in His Home

Trump keeps cancelling public appearances. He actually stiffed the NRA.

Trump Abruptly Cancels Two Big Speeches in Sign of How Bad He’s Doing

Remember how Trump went into the first debate in 2020 even though he tested positive for COVID-19?

President best known for lying may have lied about Covid-19 status before first presidential debate in 2020

Trump is a sick puppy – in more ways than one.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Markos Moulitsas (kos) at Daily Kos:

Monday night, Donald Trump returned to X and joined a Spaces conversation with Elon Musk.  It was, objectively, a disaster for Trump. Thanks to a duplicitous, double-standards media, Trump has avoided the kind of “cognitive decline” stories that reporters couldn’t stop writing about President Joe Biden. Heck, The New York Times wrote dozens of stories about Biden’s age in the wake of the first presidential debate. But Trump? His increasingly unhinged rants and inability to go on the campaign trail don’t even muster a raised eyebrow.  After his “conversation” with Musk, however, it’s going to be impossible for the media to ignore. It wasn’t just his inability to have a straight conversation with Musk. We know Trump is no longer capable of expressing a coherent thought. It was worse than that.  Trump had a bizarre lisp the entire event, slurring words with the letter “s.

The so-called “conversation” with Elon Musk and Donald Trump on X Spaces last night was a giant disaster, similar to his X Spaces with Ron DeSantis.

In that call, Trump was the same old senile and unhinged self.

See Also:

HuffPost: The 5 Wildest Moments From Donald Trump And Elon Musk’s 2-Hour Bro-Fest

The Guardian: Trump revisits most divisive talking points in rambling interview with Musk

[crowpunkcognitivedecline]

this is a cripple punk post [also focusing on all kinds of HSN disabled folks]; ableds must tag reblogs with #i’m able bodied

for the record

i generally shower exactly once a week & wash my hair the same day

sometimes i can’t change undergarments for a few days, sometimes i change them multiple times a day

i rely on several adaptive tools to shower, period

i do need to shave/trim pubic and body hair for my hygiene, and can’t keep clean otherwise

in winter, i often can’t wash my hands unless i have lotion with me or they’ll crack painfully

i change clothes once or twice a day to make up for most of this the best i can

i’m saying this because all of those things are very common issues for many disabled people (especially high-support ones), and because i feel like if i’m going to talk about destigmatizing hygiene struggles, i should at least be open about my own.

hygiene is very difficult and energy consuming. it involves a lot energy that many of us can’t access.

not being able to maintain one’s personal hygiene doesn’t make anyone selfish, disgusting, or undeserving.

if you can’t be kind and supportive and not say “ew” when you hear about one of the most common impairments moderately to severely disabled people experience, you don’t support disabled people. if you don’t support disabled people who smell bad or have dandruff or cracked hands or un-exfoliated skin, you don’t support disabled people.

yes, even if you have sensory issues. yes, even if you’re germaphobic. your disabilities are not an excuse to be ableist to others. find a way to be kind anyway.

[liberalsarecool]

Nikki comes to life. Media needs to follow this up. Don's bragging about these tests is super pathetic.

[aunti-christ-ine]

But . . . The baby was a stable genius! 😲

[queerfandomtrifecta]

Living vicariously through Daniel in post-Dubai Armandiel fics because I too am really into second guessing ill-advised situationships with submissive pretty boys I don’t fully trust, and suddenly finding a magical cure for my progressive neurological disease.

[davidaugust]

In an appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists, Donald Trump said Kamala only ‘became a black person’ recently, whereas he has always been a fascist autocrat with failing cognitive abilities.

[nodynasty4us]

There might be some wisdom in the Biden campaign proposing that both candidates undergo a battery of cognitive tests administered by a mutually agreed upon physician or group of physicians. We see three possible outcomes here, all of them good for Biden: (1) Trump refuses, making it look like he's hiding something; (2) the results affirm that both candidates are OK, helping to defuse one of Biden's biggest weaknesses; or (3) the results affirm that Biden is OK and Trump is not. Note that we are not including "Trump is OK and Biden is not" because we are confident Biden would not fail the tests. That said, if he did, it would be valuable information for him, and would probably lead him to stand down.

Electoral-vote.com

[psychotic-system-culture-is]

Psychotic System Culture is...

Having an emotional breakdown and crying in your partners' arms because you're terrified of losing your mind, and losing the ability to do the things you're no longer too suicidal/apathetic to do (like graduate, get your dream career, build a home), because of the negative symptoms of psychosis/the unknown schizo-spec disorder you likely have

[contemplatingoutlander]

NY Times: How Trump's Speeches Raise Questions about Age

Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age

With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former president’s speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a review of his public appearances over the years.

The New York Times finally posted a lead article about Trump's possible cognitive decline. Although it took them long enough, I'm glad they finally did so. This is a gift🎁link so anyone can read the entire article. Here are some excerpts:

Former President Donald J. Trump vividly recounted how the audience at his climactic debate with Vice President Kamala Harris was on his side. Except that there was no audience. The debate was held in an empty hall. No one “went crazy,” as Mr. Trump put it, because no one was there. Anyone can misremember, of course. But the debate had been just a week earlier and a fairly memorable moment. And it was hardly the only time Mr. Trump has seemed confused, forgetful, incoherent or disconnected from reality lately. In fact, it happens so often these days that it no longer even generates much attention. He rambles, he repeats himself, he roams from thought to thought — some of them hard to understand, some of them unfinished, some of them factually fantastical. He voices outlandish claims that seem to be made up out of whole cloth. He digresses into bizarre tangents about golf, about sharks, about his own “beautiful” body. He relishes “a great day in Louisiana” after spending the day in Georgia. He expresses fear that North Korea is “trying to kill me” when he presumably means Iran. As late as last month, Mr. Trump was still speaking as if he were running against President Biden, five weeks after his withdrawal from the race.

It's bad enough to have a lying, bigoted, impulsive, unfocused, self-centered, bully in the Oval Office. Now imagine one who is in cognitive decline. Goodness knows what off-the-wall and/or dangerous thing such a president could order others to do! And if he is surrounded by sycophants, they might just carry out his orders.

If Biden was too old to be President, so is Trump. It's way past time for the American people to recognize that.

[tomorrowusa]

« If any of us had an aging parent like Trump, we would gently remove the car keys. As a nation, we should keep him from the nuclear launch codes. »

— Nicholas Kristof at the New York Times.

Trump's deterioration has been plain to see though his supporters pretend not to notice.

In your guts you know he's nuts.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Edward Helmore at The Guardian:

With 78-year-old Donald Trump now certain to face a Democratic candidate younger than he is, the Republican could have the tables turned on him over the questions of age and mental agility that he often sidestepped while Joe Biden was his opponent. The age gap between Trump and any of his likely Democrat opponents – Kamala Harris, 59; Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, 52; Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro, 51 – could make him the sole focus of voters’ desire for a generational handover of power. And with Biden’s often stumbling public appearances – and especially his disastrous debate – now a thing of the past, there is likely to be a fresh focus on Trump’s mental acuity and his frequently rambling, confused campaign speeches.

Last month, for example, Trump got the name of his own doctor wrong. Previously he has made high-profile campaign trail gaffes, in which he seemed to think Barack Obama was still president and mistook his arch Republican rival Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi. Nearly 60% of US voters said last month that Biden should “definitely” or “probably” be replaced, while Trump’s favorability rating had risen to 40% since his hush-money conviction and the attempt on his life eight days ago. Harris’s favorability sits at around 39%. Biden’s departure from the ticket upends several aspects of Republican’s calculations, including that Trump the felon will now possibly have to debate Harris the former prosecutor in September – if she receives the nomination. The vice-president proved her debating skills in 2019 when she delivered a highly personal attack on Biden on the issue of race that he later described as “hurtful” and chilled relations between the Biden-Harris camps before she was named vice-president.

Remember when GOP Presidential candidate Nikki Haley said this quote? "The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the party that wins this election."

With Joe Biden ending his re-election bid and passing the torch to the younger Kamala Harris, the age and cognitive decline question disadvantage will fall on Donald Trump’s lap.

See Also:

Daily Kos: Now there's only one old guy in this election: Donald Trump

[crowpunkcognitivedecline]

this is a cripple punk post [even if it also applies to nonphysical disability]; ableds must tag reblogs with #i’m able bodied

actually tagging my last post reminded me--

if you're making a post about a disability you don't have, for fucks sake, please make or use a modified tag that IS NOT a community tag.

i get that you want to sort topics and make them easier to find on your blog or whatever, but if you misuse tags you are actively making it harder for people to find community.

avoid using just an asterisk or backslash or similar to modify the tag--these tags are usually even more explicitly for the community than the disability's unmodified tag is.

my personal go-to is 're: x', like, 're: intellectual disability', and i think ive seen 'includes: x' for fiction stuff. basically anything works if it's not used by the community. for some disabilities, you're fine just using the name of the disability as a tag, but for many, the name of the disability is the community tag. this is especially common, in my experience, with disabilities that affect cognitive/intellectual/neurological functioning. please err on the side of caution.

please, please, i am literally begging you, let disabled people have our spaces. a huge part of why i made this blog is that the tags relevant to my main disabilities are totally overrun by nondisabled people and "allies." it fucking sucks and does massive damage to disabled people--and i mean that very literally.