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[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Imo it’s very telling about how untrue the “real true identity” bit we keep hearing from tra is. Needs to be looked into deeply since we’re raising the first generation of kids eating up hormone blockers and other interferences. Not a bright future to look forward to tbh.

Tragic for the patients. Dementia is frightening enough without your own body becoming unknown to you.

[–]MarkTwainiac 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Dementia is frightening enough without your own body becoming unknown to you.

But aging itself, particularly advanced aging, is a process by which our own bodies become unfamiliar to us. Often as we age and our bodies change in enormous ways we once found unthinkable, our bodies become totally unrecognizable and feel quite alien, in fact.

A case could be made that the people who find this experience most frightening are those who go through it with their/our minds and powers of perception and memory still fully intact. And who don't drink or do drugs or find some other way of mentally escaping the harsh realities of what's happening.

Dementia is very frightening in the stages when persons with dementia still have awareness of what's happening to them. But once dementia that's caused by aging and age-related conditions like Alzheimer's has reached the state where it's full-blown and full-time, persons affected don't seem to feel much fear. At all. About what's happening to their bodies or about anything else.