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[peggysue2]

62. Trump has some sort of serious cognitive decline going on

Don't know whether it's dementia or addled brain from drug usage or what. However, he does have a family history with his father dying with Alzheimer's, a terrible, debilitating disease.

In my family, the onset was not being able to do tasks that both my father and sister knew inside out. For my dad, always a whiz with math and figures, he could no longer write up a simple sales tax for his customers. For my sister, it was no longer being able to use the accounting software that she had bought, tweaked and utilized at the firm where she worked. She ultimately quit her job with some excuse about personality clashes with the boss. But later, she admitted she just couldn't do the job. She lied about it because she was embarrassed, ashamed, and . . . terrified. We both watched our father slip into the darkness, a prolonged and ugly death. She knew what the future held.

So yes, the symptoms vary from case-to-case. But equating Biden's word stumbles and/or so-called gaffes with true dementia is both offensive and hurtful to anyone who has lived with and seen Alzheimer's disease up close and personal. We're talking about a man who overcame severe stuttering as a kid and we're going to make an issue over his word slips?

To quote Joe Biden: Give me a break!

I'm not going to say anything more on the subject because it infuriates me. Not you, True Blue. I'm speaking about other posters.