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[–]MarkTwainiac 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I don't know anything more about it. I just know it happens. I imagine it might have something to do with the way certain essential information and self-knowledge that gets acquired early in life and is of fundamental importance gets recorded and stored in the brain, which means it still can be retrieved even after - or especially after? - dementia sets in. It might be similar to how people who've had massive strokes and lost almost all their language skills, vocabulary, understanding of grammar etc still know and will say curse words - and the way people in fear or on death's door automatically call for "mama" (or the equivalent word in their native tongue).