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My grandfather forgot who I was and couldn't recognize me shortly before he died. We were very close and this still haunts me. Not the fact that he forgot, bu
by ca98am79 12y ago
My grandfather forgot who I was and couldn't recognize me shortly before he died. We were very close and this still haunts me. Not the fact that he forgot, but how he acted towards me during that time. Since then, I have really questioned my own identity, I guess because I identified at least partly based on my relationship with him (and my family), and this made me question all of that.
- sukilot 12y agoImagine if you lived in the 19th Century and you communicated by letter, and your grandfather suffered a severe injury and couldn't and read or write you letters anymore, and instead they were dictated via scribe who wasn't a fluent speaker of the language. That's what a degenerative brain disease is like.