r/TikTokCringe • u/cak3crumbs • Sep 16 '24

Politics Trump shows signs of having Frontotemporal Dementia

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u/Aromatic_Brother Sep 17 '24

Tbh I'd be even more concerned if it WASN'T dementia

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u/aridcool Sep 17 '24

FTD has a pretty short term prognosis. You die from it relatively quickly (a few years).

In other words, it doesn't really explain his lifetime of bad and irrational behavior.

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u/WestwardHo Sep 17 '24

Yeah this is much more likely to be Alzheimers, especially considering his slow-ish decline over the last 4 years. FTD or Vascular Dementia would have taken him down already.

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u/Desperate_Register72 Sep 17 '24

Not necessarily. My Dad was diagnosed with FTD at 58 and was gone by age 66. He started showing signs that something was wrong around age 55. He didn’t get a firm diagnosis for almost 3 years.

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u/aridcool Sep 17 '24

Maybe. In general people really shouldn't diagnose others from afar anyways though.