Talking of things that grate...
Yeah, you know, like, is now ringing round, you know, in my head, you know, like, yeah
Yeah, you know, like, is now ringing round, you know, in my head, you know, like, yeah
The word demented I don't like and have never used it, a journey I have no problem with. I have always thought of life as a journey, travelled over smooth ground and not so smooth ground. We in our life have made a wrong turn or two and ended up in a cul-de-sac but always managed to get back on the straight and arrow. We now continue the journey with dementia and I don't know of a more suitable word to use instead of journey.
Basically. Drives me mad. It is a word that means nothing when starting a sentence, you know what I mean?
Jay.
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The word demented I don't like and have never used it, a journey I have no problem with. I have always thought of life as a journey, travelled over smooth ground and not so smooth ground. We in our life have made a wrong turn or two and ended up in a cul-de-sac but always managed to get back on the straight and arrow. We now continue the journey with dementia and I don't know of a more suitable word to use instead of journey.
Basically. Drives me mad. It is a word that means nothing when starting a sentence, you know what I mean?
Jay.
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I have two pet hates at the start of a sentence:
"With the greatest of respect...." because you know what is about to follow will be totally without respect.
"What you fail to understand........" this one makes my blood boil a relative uses it all the time and then comes out with something pretty obvious. I don't know if they realise how patronising it sounds, I'll let you know what I understand thanks.
I feel better now for getting that off my chest.
I haven’t posted on Talking Point for a while but I think this thread about the words we use place on a Alzheimer’s forum does nothing to help or support a person with Dementia or encourage them be on talking point to respond to threads especially when because of their Dementia they struggle to find the words in the first place for 23 years I wrote Building maintenance contracts now with my dementia I struggle to write anything and if I was in conversation with someone those and can’t find a word or get lost they are replace with swear words so spare a thought that some members on talking point with dementia Can write eloquently and some members struggle , if you know a person with dementia surly you would notice this