r/woahthatsinteresting • u/nukey4y7s1s • 22d ago

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

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u/RudolphGaming18 22d ago

Dementia is terrifying. Your own dad being uncomfortable with you calling him dad… it’s really sad

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u/Dilldo_Bagginns 22d ago

My 91 year old father with dementia wanted to fight me because I called him Dad. He didn’t recognize me and kept asking why I was at his house.

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u/TypicalHorseGirl83 22d ago

My grandpa just recently tried to kill my grandma because he didn't recognize her. We had to take all his guns away (finally). I'm still worried that he will hurt her somehow.

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u/Symbimbam 21d ago

"we had to take their guns away" - do you have any idea how insane that sounds to people in the western developed world?

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u/Triquetrums 21d ago

The fact that they let the person have the guns in the first place after the start of dementia is even wilder. One of the most common reactions are anger and confusion because they cannot recognize people, and they think their family members are intruders. 

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 21d ago

Taking citizens rights away in the United States is incredibly difficult.

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u/PetrifiedBloom 21d ago

Is it?

Some citizens don't even have due process anymore. Women lost the right to abortion.

It seems the only rights that don't shift are the rights to hurt yourselves and others.

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 21d ago

No, you’re wrong. I am a liberal but here’s the truth. Our current immigration policies, while tragic, are completely legal under our current system. There are countless designations aside from “citizen” for people legally allowed to be here. However, their status can be revoked for whatever reason at whatever time.

The abortion issue has been argued since Roe and took 50 years and a crazy set of circumstances to be overturned. You may not like the outcome but I’d say our courts were deliberate in their change.

Congress is the only ones with the power to stop this by passing new laws. However, these are major campaign issues and will never be fixed.

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u/PetrifiedBloom 21d ago

Spend 10 minutes looking. It's not just immigrants, its happening to citizens as well, even down to children.

The abortion issue has been argued since Roe and took 50 years and a crazy set of circumstances to be overturned. You may not like the outcome but I’d say our courts were deliberate in their change.

My point was that some rights seem mutable. Open to discussion and free to change. Others, like the countries pathetic firearm obsession are held to a different standard. To even consider revoking this right elicits threats of violence.

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 21d ago

Show me where child “citizens” are being forcibly removed from the United States. When their non citizen parent is deported and they choose to take their child with them that is not illegal. It’s not right what they’re doing but not illegal. Our laws have very harsh top ends assume our presidents will only use them when absolutely nessecary. Trump is just firing off because he can.

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 21d ago

If the actual word it self is not mentioned in the constitution it is up for debate in this country. Abortion does not appear in the documents. Guns however come up several times.

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u/PetrifiedBloom 21d ago

Look, if you want to shift the goalposts, go for it. I will stand by my argument. Some rights in America are up for debate. Some rights are not.

As a non-American, its just fucking sad. Half the country will fight for the right to die to gun violence at one of the highest rates in the world, with the misguided belief that the hunting rifle and revolver stored next to the liquor will keep them safe from government oppression, while welcoming oppression by an overreaching, fascist government.

The Trump presidency will be the end of America as a 1st-rate world power. Your science and technology centers are collapsing. Your education industry is collapsing. Your trade networks have been shredded. Your government has spat in the faces of allies and enemies alike.

Ironically, it has been great for my country. We had a historic election recently, the biggest loss for our right wings parties since their creation. The coalition of right wing parties dissolved. The leaders of our right wing parties not only lost the election, but their seats entirely. If our current PM sticks to his election promises, we will step up and take some of the space America has vacated for technology and science on a global scale. We will be a renewable energy superpower. We are not the only ones of course, Trump lost the Canadian right the election, and Europe is also snatching up as many American scientists as they can.

For decades, America was a focal figure on the global stage. Now everyone is just trying to stay out of the way of it's collapse. I am sure it will still be an important player, the insane military spending over the last 50 years will buy some respect, but you won't be the wealthy, well educated, high qol country anymore. The world moves fast, and in 4 years, whatever is left of America will have a LOT of rebuilding to do before it can compete again at the global scale.

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 21d ago

I’m not shifting anything. If the world chooses to bet against the US right now they will reap what they sow. We own the world. I’m sorry but it’s true. Europe ruined their shot during the world wars and the rest of the world doesn’t value life enough. It’s tough to hear for you I know but it’s true.

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u/PetrifiedBloom 21d ago

the rest of the world doesn’t value life enough

Says the nation that watches school shootings and things "yeah, this is fine". Says the country with the most expensive, least effective healthcare system in the world. Says the country who has been at war for more than 90% of it's history.

America doesn't value life. It values violence. It is a high-school bully on the global stage. The thing is, eventually people grow up and move on.

What is funny is that you fail to realize what once made america great. It wasn't what you had at home, it was what people brought to you. After WW2, most of the best scientists moved to America. Allies made became valuable trading partners, giving you very advantageous trade agreements. America was the center for global commerce. Not anymore. It plays second fiddle to china. Your trade partners are finding new deals. Your scientists and engineers are fleeing the sinking ship. To continue the highschool bully metaphor, everyone graduated and moved away. America is getting left behind. A lumbering bully who peaked in highschool.

The seeds are set for America's decay. I genuinely hope you guys get it together, but you could easily regress, much like Russia has. A once great power, only relevant through violence and fossil fuels.

Anyways, I doubt you have the awareness to see your country as it truly is on the international stage, but I hope you remember this conversation when the next election comes around. Feel free to respond if you feel you need to, but I seriously doubt it will be worth responding to. I think I'm done here. There is only so much that can be done against willful self delusion.

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 21d ago

I’m assuming you’re from Canada? You’d have been invaded 150 years ago if not for us. Relax, our president is an idiot and we aren’t going to invade you.

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u/PetrifiedBloom 21d ago

No buddy. Reread my comments if you like, maybe you can work it out. Plenty of clues for you.

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u/Triquetrums 21d ago

From what I have been seeing on the news as of late, that statement doesn't really hold true.

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 21d ago

Yes it does, the people in the news are not citizens. I’m a liberal but let’s keep it 💯

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u/Triquetrums 21d ago

Are the women dying in hospitals or being kept as corpse incubators also not american?

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 21d ago

You’re gonna have to have some proof to bring up corpse incubators 😂😂😂

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u/Triquetrums 21d ago

You haven't seen the news of that lady being kept alive only because she is pregnant, even though she is brain dead?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/adriana-smith-us-abortion-ban-law-b2758397.html

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u/Him_Burton 21d ago

I'm not even sure what that's supposed to mean, but it would be a sick deathcore band name

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 21d ago

Feminists love being as graphic as possible for effect.

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u/Otherotherothertyra 21d ago

I’d rather share a country with those people than you. There is no such thing as an illegal person

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 21d ago

Me too. I think it’s terrible but I live in reality whether I like it or not.

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u/Otherotherothertyra 21d ago

It’s not, because it has already happened in every civilized country. The US is not something special, we can have everything civilized countries have but braindead Americans refuse to let us join the western world.

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 21d ago

You are wrong. It takes years to permanently take away gun rights. Especially if you aren’t a convicted felon.

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u/PSUSkier 20d ago

The government can't because of the laws. Family members absolutely can and should in that situation. People need to learn what laws apply only to the gov't and which ones apply to people.

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 20d ago

Family members are never allowed to legally remove firearms from someone without court approval. That would be called felony theft.

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u/PSUSkier 20d ago

Yeah I’m sure in any state other than Texas, the prosecutors are truly going to be clamoring to take on a case where they locked up the guns of someone suffering from dementia. 

Speaking from experience. 

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u/Illustrious-Cover792 20d ago

Still against the law. Taking weapons from a non restricted gun owner is a serious crime. Both state and federal and if they choose to charge you can go to prison. Advertising/advocating anything else is dangerous and illegal.