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Went to visit my meemaw and papa. My papa has dementia and has convinced himself that he’s no longer “papa” and insists that we all call him “crawdad” and that it’s always been “crawdad”
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Anonymous 1d

Maybe I'm missing something but what exactly is the ick here

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Anonymous 1d

why did you post this in both this community and the neurodivergent community??

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Anonymous 1d

No okay but that’s adorable -signed an assisted living DSP

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

i guess because dementia is kind of neurodivergent? neurodegenerative so their brains are working differently too

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1d

but why in this community too? how is this an ick???

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 1d

Wrong chat lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1d

Was probably just a misclick the first time

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