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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I know what you mean. When my mom first began to make random stuff up, I would immediately start a fight with her about it, because I pride myself on my own memory and she used to be an editor and fact-checker and I think I was really resisting the idea that she could be so stubbornly wrong. Now we (or I) have moved past the conflict stage, but when one of these questions about family history comes up, I go and check records as far as I have them and write down my own version for my reference. But I don't confront her with it. In any case, I totally understand how living so closely with someone else's altered reality can start to make you question your own memories. It's yet another aspect of the isolation that comes with caregiving for the elderly.[/quote]
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