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[quote=Anonymous]My dad is pretty docile and relatively independent (can make food and go to the grocery store and walk a few miles) but is so cognitively declined that there’s very little chance of interesting conversation. It’s a petty complaint I know. He seems intelligent and charming to those who meet him but after a couple years of caring for him after my mother died it’s clear that he is extremely limited intellectually. He also isn’t emotionally self aware, or self aware in any sense really. 
He loves to keep appearances of being an intellectual though. This combination is extremely annoying though I try my best to be understanding and tolerant. 
I try to avoid long conversations with him and only talk about practical things, or I get angry about him pulling the wool over the family’s eyes that he is an intellectual. Extremely self unaware, childish, somewhat selfish, helpless in the real world is what he is. I guess I need therapy but the awakening is pretty rude. 
He seemed ok in his 60s but again we didn’t hang out much and didn’t talk about deep stuff so who knows [/quote]

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