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[quote=Anonymous]If so, did she later get diagnosed with dementia? Years later I mean.

I have a relative who has morphed from an outgoing‘bubbly’ big personality type into a middle aged woman who must always be talking whenever in the presence of others* Literally always - I began timing her today, and the longest she was able to maintain a silence after uttering her last word was 8 seconds.  The mean interval of silence was 4 seconds

Someone is sure to point out that I’m being a beech for privately and silently clocking my relative’s babble. But think about what I just wrote. Being unable to maintain silence for more than four seconds is pretty astounding, and I think it reaches the level of pathology.

There are a few other contextual circumstances that make me wonder if this might be the very very earliest symptoms of a dementia type neurological problem. We’re not close enough that I could suggest that she get a neurological work up and she would listen to me. So I’m just curious. Anyone reading this know someone like this ?  What were they like at 75?

* I have observed that when there’s absolutely no one else that she can talk at, she will obsessively scroll social media on her phone in silence.

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