A little update on this.
So, I met with the mods and we were planning to do a little surprise ceremony for this. We'd jump into chat during an active time, and rather than having drawn the winners and announce them, we were going to do a public drawing, using our chat dice system. It seemed that...
If infants are convinced that only they can save the Chinese embassy from ninjas, they're less able to both articulate it and try to do something about it at 3am.
The weird thing is that he not only has a personality change, he remembers things from the previous nights during the night but doesn't remember them during the day.
Not just "oh, yeah, dementia makes people weird" stuff: identical communication quirks, identical kinds of behavioral anomalies, the works. They're halfway across the world from each other and haven't seen each other for nearly six years.
I have a very good friend whose daughter's got strep A about a month after she was born, destroyed half her brain. Yet so far she is completely normal developmentally 2 years later.
My dad has bouts of near-total lucidity, but one of his quirks is that whatever condition he's in at the moment is the condition he has always been in: happy, sad, in pain, confused, understanding. It drives the doctors nutty trying to get a handle on his actual condition.
@waxeagle My grandmother's recovering very well from her stroke, about as well as they could possibly have expected, but she lost her math.
She was a math teacher for homebound students most of her life, and read theoretical multiple-dimension stuff for casual relaxation. Now she's just... lost math.
yeah. At least my dad doesn't know what he's lost most of the time.
My grandmother gets sad whenever my mother comes to visit, and says "Oh, she doesn't want to see me. I can't talk about math with her anymore." (My mother was the only one of her kids who really talked about that stuff with her.)
@BESW I do computer works for a couple of men in their 80s and 90s and both of them regularly forget things they know they should remember and it frustrates them to no end. Both were doctors and are fiercely indpendent...
Oh, yeah. Doctors. They have an insane amount to cram into their heads, especially from that generation.
The computer learning center I teach at sometimes gets contracts from the Veterans' Affairs, to do vocational training and vocational therapy. It's a real mixed bag.
@BESW I could see that. I tried to take over a guy who left town's computer repair business and I'm just not any good at it. But these guys need more of a tutor and someone to cross check them on their accounting so that fits well with my skill set.
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@KRyan So now the phone weighs twenty pounds, doesn't fit in your pocket, and requires external speakers/keyboard/mouse/monitor in order to interface with it?
....Speaking of phones, I just got an email that I had been scheduled to teach a class today but hadn't been told because they were only calling my cell phone... they only thought to use email to tell me they'd had to cancel the class.
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