Frontal temporal dementia?

[lou ky dem]

If you list what Trump has been acting like lately it is the symptoms of Frontal temporal dementia.
Behavior changes: Impulsive behaviors, apathy, loss of empathy, and social isolation

Language problems: Difficulty speaking, finding words, reading, and writing

Movement problems: Tremors, muscle spasms, weakness, stiffness, poor coordination, and balance

Memory problems: Impaired abstract thinking, reasoning, and executive function.

This list of symptoms is AI overview of a search of the condition frontal lobe dementia.

[John1956PA]

1. I don't know if he has it, but it is a condition which progresses quickly. n/t

[allegorical oracle]

17. Recently read piece about that (don't have the link anymore). The psychologist

pointed out how the frontal lobe is a governor of the "reptilian" part of the brain and helps keep inhibitions in check. As the frontal lobe begins to fail, inhibitions can begin to decline, and symptoms -- from appearance (exposing one's body parts) to increasingly vulgar language -- become more evident.

When I read that, I thought immediately of you-know-who.

[Jmb 4 Harris-Walz]

2. Loss of empathy is not a change...he's NEVER empathized!

[bif]

3. Or Frontal Dumbfuckery?

[arlyellowdog]

4. Seriously, I believe you're right, but you need to tell the scary stuff

No, it’s doesn’t progress quickly (meaning that family go through hell long enough to destroy their souls). And, yes, he has it and it’s mean. I’ve been told things by a person who had it that hurt almost a decade after his death. You justify that it’s the disease, but I do think it makes a mean person extremely mean.

[murielm99]

5. I agree.

My mother was mean before dementia. Now she is unbearable. Two doctors have diagnosed her dementia.

[Lulu KC]

13. It depends

A visit to a neurologist (who will order some imaging) and a neuropsych test can tell a lot. It's helpful to at least set a baseline so you can follow what's happening over time. Sometimes there is treatment.

[murielm99]

18. You can ask her doctors to test her and diagnose her.

Maybe she has normal aging. Maybe dementia. I would never have said anything if my mother had not been diagnosed by two different doctors.

[MineralMan]

6. Possibly, but diagnosing someone from a position of

not being able to examine him, or not being a qualified professional, makes that a sketchy thing to do.

Still, there's something we, as lay people, can say that really can't be challenged:

Donald Trump is Fucking Nuts!

[multigraincracker]

7. He is on that spectrum.

Plus lots of others.

[MineralMan]

8. Probably so, but I'm not any sort of physician.

[ms liberty]

9. Almost certainly, but that's a term for a collection of dementias

One of them is Lewy Bodys dementia.

My MiL has fronto temporal dementia, so this past year has been a learning experience on it. She was a teacher. Practical, dependable, smart, level headed and level tempered. Then she became someone who was mean, paranoid, delusional, and devious and deceitful about it. She had memory loss but not forgetting who people are, most of her loss is of short term memories.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. It appears that TFG may have frontal lobe dementia.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[maxsolomon]

19. He wears lifts

That explains the posture. And the toe-elevating pads.

It's why he fell out of his shoes when the SS tackled him after he got shot at.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. TFG is suffering from Dementia

Link to tweet

[maxsolomon]

22. Why is "John Francis" opinion on Xitter a fact?

Just-as-valid Counterpoint:

Trump does NOT have Dementia; he stands like that because he wears lifts. He's a monstrously vain clown who wants to loom over others to dominate them and can't do it because he's only 6'-1".

[PCIntern]

12. Loss of sexual filter...

One of the symptoms is that they are capable of saying almost anything to anyone and as it becomes more advanced, sexual actions are uninhibited. Gets really creepy.

[usedtobedemgurl]

14. Trump....loss of empathy?

He never had any to begin with!

[Maru Kitteh]

15. An AI Google search is not diagnostic but really does it matter? He's obviously slipping gears.

There are MANY ways that people end up with dementia. The intricacies of how they came to be are sometimes important for treatment but honestly, they seldom matter much and we're not going to be treating him. Nobody will be treating him because he's incapable of admitting any deficit could exist, of any kind.

The dementia is a problem but the far bigger issue is the underlying personality disorders that have always been there. He now has very little executive function and almost no outer forces saving him (and us) from his darkest impulses.

[Blue Owl]

16. His frontal lobe combover ain't hiding it

[maxsolomon]

20. He's not exhibiting any of those symptoms.

Yes, he has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, but mainly HE'S JUST AN ASSHOLE.