TIF Finds The Worst Thing About Parents' Alzheimer's Disease Is The Affront & "Threat" It Poses to "His" Opposite-Sex Identity

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[–]Feather 30 insightful - 1 fun30 insightful - 0 fun31 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

And, even as she focuses on herself, she's focused on the wrong thing (even for a self-centered person). Her worry, as related to herself, should be about her own likely genetic predisposition towards Alzheimer's.

[–]leaveandletleave 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I came here to say this! If it had been a reflection on the fact that SHE could forget her transition in old age, it might have been worth reading. The fact that she finishes by saying all that matters is a person’s essence defeats the supposed point of her own article anyway.

[–]MarkTwainiac[S] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

AFAIK, there have been numerous cases of TIMs who got genital surgery and fake boobs then later developed various kinds of dementia and forgot that they had transitioned. Every day they'd wake up and scream bloody murder, "Where is my dick? What happened to my dick?" and "What are these things in my chest?"

I know a TIM who transitioned in the 1970s in his late 40s (he was married, had 5 kids and a successful career in a male-dominated field, aerospace engineering, at the time; previously he'd been in the military). In his early 60s, he suffered a series of strokes (probably due to all the exogenous estrogen) as well as AIDS-related dementia and had no idea/recollection of what happened to his body and seemed totally freaked out by it. The strokes affected his ability to recall words as well as his ability to say them, so it was often hard to make out exactly what he was saying/shouting. But he was very clearly freaked out by the changes to his body.

[–]tuesday 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

And what's even more telling, is that normal people who are not trans, when they get dementia, are completely okay with with their normal aged body. It's only the transpeople who can't remember they "were born in the wrong body and then 'fixed it with transitioning' ".

If dysphoria is really this life long permanent thing which necessitates so much money time and effort, then how come the dysphoria doesn't stick with them when they get dementia? You don't see normal people waking up every morning in the dementia nursing home screaming that their body parts are wrong.