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[quote=Anonymous]I think it could be early signs of dementia. My MIL has late stage dementia now but early on it presented often w her getting “stuck” on some random thing and insisting on it even when it either made no sense, was wrong, bothered someone. Etc. For example when we visited she’d always insist that our son was sad and wanted to go home even though he would be laughing and playing and clearly (to everyone else) having a great time. This was all due to one instance in which years before when he had gotten sick at their house and we had left earlier than planned.

She also had a thing w holidays/birthdays where even when she wrote the date on a calendar and had the calendar right in front of her and someone told her “today is July 15, so and so’s birthday” she couldn’t register that it was in fact that day and she’d insist “no their bday was last week” or “I think their bday is coming up soon but I don’t think it’s today” and she’d often call people a week before their bday or 3 days after it or whatever to wish them a happy birthday. And when we’d go there for holidays the holiday would often get celebrated early or late too (once she wanted to “go ahead” and celebrate Christmas on December 20 even though there was no reason to do so and once she bought all the food and had a meal all planned for thanksgiving but on thanksgiving day she said she didn’t think she should prepare the meal til the weekend, again for no reason.) it’s like dates and occasions that required planning/advance thought (even if the advance thought comes easily and naturally to others) just completely confused her.[/quote]

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