Boomers are generally stubborn assholes, but a telltale sign of the early stages of some types of dementia is becoming completely utterly rigid in your thinking patterns. On another level of rigidness, not just the standard rigidness based on the rotten personality of a stubborn boomer. Like a magnitude worse. Completely locked in, won't tolerate hearing a word of anything to the contrary, literally starts yelling if they do hear it. And these yelling chimpouts start getting more and more frquent.

It's because the critical thinking parts of the brain start to die, so these guys (and gals) become functioning retards. There's no more flexibility, but the memory is still fairly intact, so they become like a machine. They're just coasting on memories, running on memories. They're not fully mentally present in any conversation in the traditional, respectful sense (give and take, exchanging ideas, pondering them), because they're not capable of it.

Imagine a lunch get-together of 4 boomers, 2 couples. From afar, or in a quick snapshot it looks like they're all they're chatting, catching up, sharing what new crazy things they've read about in the media or that their children or grandchildren have shown them. On the surface, nothing is wrong.

But in this case, only 3 of them are actually engaing in this way. 1 of them has this dementia, and while he/she can hear what the others are saying, still has a perfectly fine grasp on the language, and is able to respond back with their own words, there was no actual attempt to meaningfully think about and appreciate the others' words and ideas. They're not mentally capable of it any more. Every response is just regurgitating their memories or their positions based on their memories, with no give, no capacity or tolerance for any new information. It legit angers them to hear anything that doesn't fit into their now permanently fixed understanding of things, it irritates all their neurons. It's like a wrestler 'going into business for himself' - they aren't interested in a cooperative dance to tell a nice story, all they want to do is 'get their shit in' (do their signature moves) and get the pin, no interest in putting on a good match. Except the wrestler chooses to do it, the dementia boomer literally physically CAN'T NOT do it. The partner of the dementia boomer knows this and tries, successfully or unsuccessfully, to smooth the conversation out to hide this from the other boomer couple.

Trump's Epstein chimpout reminds me of another guy who must have had significant dementia of this type before croaking last year. Dr John McDougall. Vegan doctor and vegan diet preacher, also a boomer stubborn asshole. He was an asshole even in youth and health. But the last 5-10 years of his life he jumped the shark. He went totally rigid in all his thought patterns, so much that he would lash out and chimp out and yell at other vegans when they would have him on their shows to interview, something he had never done before. Before he had only ever been rude to meat eaters. But now, eyes bulging, psychotic with anger against even his fellow vegans for daring to suggest something outside of his own framework. Incapable of processing any new information.

Like I said, I know this stubborn arrogant asshole personality is a common boomer phenomenon, so in these people it's often harder to tell when their personality ends and where the dementia begins. But Trump's Epstein chimpout is new territory even for him. He's so openly turned on his supporters, he never did that in the 10 years of his political career up until now. It's so obvious to everyone that he's covering it up, it's embarrassing, but he still won't budge. His Truth Social posts are mini essays, long unhinged rants. Before, he could keep even his cringe tweets short and sweet, but not any more. He seems to genuinely not even be capable of hearing any information that contradicts what he's convinced himself is the truth, even hearing questions about it in making him extremely angry. So to me it looks like he's crossed over from simply-bad-personality territory into literally-has-dementia territory.

>>510638091 (OP)
>Pedophile
>Dementia
Trump Literally Is Joe Biden We Must Make Him Joe Biden

If Hilary is so crooked, why doesn't Trump order his FBI to investigate her?

>>510638091 (OP)
>but a telltale sign of the early stages of some types of dementia is becoming completely utterly rigid in your thinking patterns. On another level of rigidness, not just the standard rigidness based on the rotten personality of a stubborn boomer. Like a magnitude worse. Completely locked in, won't tolerate hearing a word of anything to the contrary, literally starts yelling if they do hear it. And these yelling chimpouts start getting more and more frquent
My dad has or is getting dementia then :(

>>510638176
>John McDougall
Dang I didn't know he died. I've wondered about guys like this and how they've been doing the last five years.

>>510638091 (OP)
He needs to shut the fuck up about it.

Yeah a lot of us are aware of it.
Just set a fucking age limit in politics

>>510638091 (OP)
WHOT

WHO IS ALL YOU

AN WHY IS YOU ALL FUKKIN KIDS?!

>>510638587
Pretty sure we're all getting a good lick of this. It's like the snowglobe is upside down and we have to settle in the crooks and crannies the system wants; our anger and discontent is being used to write a skeleton of values into our minds and souls, that we did not have five years ago.
It started for myself about two years ago: I became more interested in positions on the left, to understand them and integrate them with my conservative instincts.

>>510638091 (OP)
>oldest president ever
>the right thought this was a winning strategy

This might be the problem. He can't remember if he is on the Epstein list or not.

>>510638091 (OP)
we seriously need age limits on all elected positions

but unfortunately the only people that can change it are themselves, so it won't ever be changed

>>510638587
Sorry to hear that fren.
There's a theory that dementia is a metabolic disease and you can stop or at least slow down the progression through a ketogenic diet.
But if your dad has already become extra stubborn on top of any original stubbornness, there might be little hope of convincing him.

A silver lining is that not all types of dementia are the same, this one isn't the one most people are familiar with, where their memories fade and they forget all their loved ones. That's probably the most cruel one.
This one doesn't have much to do with memory loss, at least in the early and middle stages.

And it's probably a very delicate subject to broach with an actual sufferer (if he is one).
Maybe go behind his back and have a chat with his doctor, if it's possible? You can explain that you think this is the situation, I think they'll understand and help plan out a way to bring him in, maybe even for other reasons, and to eventually have this come up 'organically' in the process of other health checks.

https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/dementia-different-types#frontotemporal-dementia

>>510638091 (OP)
im not reading all of that

>>510640177
t. Dementia Don

It's fucking rampant. I'm only 54 and been cutting off friends one by one.

I just ended a long term friendship when the person left my cat without food and water then had a screaming chimpout when confronted.

I get tired of these excuses .dementia should be punished with a bullet to the head.

I'm looking for a bigger gun just in case. I'd hate to end my life ranting and raving about clouds. S828x

>>510638091 (OP)
>dementia
His word salad is a major red flag. His posts on social media were always brief and witty. Only recently did he start posting those retarded walls of text. So yeah, he's gone, and what makes it even worse is the fact that he already has a shitty personality to begin with.

>>510638129
>Frontotemporal Dementia
This is what propagandists like Stephen Colbert rely on when manipulating boomers.

>>510641931
>I just ended a long term friendship when the person left my cat without food and water then had a screaming chimpout when confronted.
completely inexcusable
how old was the person?

>>510643904
(as in, their behavior = completely inexcusable)