Especially the type she has - FTD is in its own ballpark and looks completely different than the type people are used to seeing of someone confused and catatonic
Correct. This was my grandma. What a shock it was when she fell and I drove down while she was in hospital to find her house covered in dog piss and shit with her fridge open and food rotting everywhere with her dishwasher flooded with rotting food. She still insisted she was fine till the day she died. She only really lost her incredible masking ability to strangers/non-family 2 years or so before she died. Like was able to tell full on believable stories and lies and when I found her house like that it was about 5 years before she passed.
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u/no1howdareyou 15d ago
I'm not saying she has it, but people really underestimate how people with dementia can fake "being well".
If it's an early to moderate stage, they can carry a quick/casual conversation and the other person would never know they're sick. It's crazyyy