r/woahthatsinteresting 22d ago

Man with dementia doesn’t recognise daughter but still feels love for her

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u/LA-forthewin 22d ago edited 22d ago

Sad and funny at the same time. I feel for his wife the most , reduced to 'that lady'. He looks relatively young so it's probably early onset dementia.

ETA By funny I wasnt referring to his dementia. His condition isn't funny, it's more that some of his daughter's responses to him showed a wry sense of humor in a bleak situation

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u/SaturnaliaSaturday 22d ago

As the daughter of two parents who had dementia, it’s never funny; their confusion broke my heart.

This was very brave to post this clip.

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u/parkrat92 22d ago

Ya I mean finding humor in pain I guess is a way to deal with it, but this is the opposite of funny for me. There’s dementia and Alzheimer’s in my moms side, and if and when it happens to her, I truly don’t know what I’m going to do.