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  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Oh boy!

    “I’m not 80, and I’m not that close to 80,” said Trump, who is 20 months away from turning 80. “I’ve done cognitive tests. I’ve done them twice, and I aced both of them, and the doctor in one case said, ‘I’ve never seen anybody ace them.’”

    He aced a test that only shows… Fuck here’s the test:

    Recite these words back to me: person, woman, man, camera, TV

    Harris could hammer that one home! “Here’s the cognitive test Trump brags about.”

    Dyer and other psychiatrists, though, said that test, often used as an initial screening tool which Trump took nearly seven years ago, is not helpful in assessing his current condition.

    Seven years is a long time in one’s 70s. May be almost zero difference, may be drooling on the carpet.

    “That assessment is given to potential nursing home patients to decide which wing to assign them to, not to someone you want to hire, let alone be president,” said Andrew Smolar, a Pennsylvania psychiatrist who has had numerous patients of Trump’s age and apparent condition.

    OUCH.

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      I can’t pass up the opportunity to point out that that list of words was not part of the cognitive assessment that he “aced.” He forgot that list. Person, man, woman, camera, and TV were just objects in his field of vision at the moment he was speaking in the interview.

      I’ve been pointing out his dementia symptoms for years now. Why does it still feel so shitty to be proved right by time? :-/

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        I saw it happening to my mother. No one else did or they didn’t want to see it. Its part of the reason why I was cast out.

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            It was more to it than just her mental decline that caused me to go no contact on that day. I was told I was the reason why my son was autistic and I didn’t discipline him enough. Also on that day they told my daughter she was going to hell for having a psychology degree. My mother regularly through the years referred to my daughter as a bastard because we were not married when she was conceived. Like I said the problem was larger than my mothers dementia but that is what triggered it. The oncoming dementia and her sudden inability to keep her lies straight is how I figured out she was abusing my son.