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Originally Posted by justjim
This encounter had to be shocking. This man is "sick"(for sure) to behave in such a manner in a public place. Unfortunately, for the man, sooner or later he will run into a person who will not handle his behavior in a "graceful" manner.
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The sick man probably isn't even aware of his outbursts "if indeed he is suffering from dementia and or Alzehimers Disease". I've seen it in action, believe me. It puzzles family members and others who witness these outbursts for no good reason.....as Gracie did.
I'm just saying it was a possibility.
When I was younger and we still had the A&P market in our town, I remember being totally puzzled when a nice middle aged man would take his aging mother grocery shopping every week.......he was so patient with her, even when she would start cursing in the produce aisle.
I'm certain it was embarrassing for him........but those incidents and then later when we also experienced various people we knew and loved with Alzheimers and dementia.......I understood. I understand now.
The personality changes from belligerance to passivity and sometimes back again. Probably "inside of them" they are frustrated with these changes and outbursts. I'm not a doctor; all I know is what I've observed. We saw many wonderful people, including retired military people, teachers, engineers, you name it, from every walk of life .......develop totally different personalities.......when we'd visit my mom in the Alzheimers wing at the very end of her long journey.
These had been upstanding folks in our town. So, no one really knows for sure, myself included, why people have these outbursts. It's also hard on the families.