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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She is very rarely kind.  She never was ever very warm or especially loving, but she wasn’t bitter mean like this until this year, and it’s increasingly worse every week or so.  My daughter told me that she noticed that she never says “I love you” back to anyone any more; she says “thanks” or “ok bye.”[/quote]

New Poster. My mom became more and more nasty to me (and was never warm and fuzzy to begin with) and still passed the dementia screen. She also could still pretend to be decent and kind to others in public longer than she could with me. From what I have read with some of the frontal temporal impairment disorders like (FTD and a form of FTA) they can pass the screen, but still have dterioration in the frontal temporal lobes causing worsening behavior. My mom always had a mean streak, but I could work around it and she had some good qualities too and sometimes her diva like behavior was amusing. Now she is capable of extreme emotional abuse without relenting. It's really sad because I had figured out how to have a strong relationship with her prior despite her dark side. Now it's impossible.

I think it's probably easier to think "it's the disease" if a sweet and loving mom turns evil. When a challenging parent you worked hard to connect with turns demonic at least for me, I started to wonder if this is just who she is and she can no longer fake the social charms with me.[/quote]

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