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I've watched all the Biden dementia compilations on Youtube and they're all a joke. If he actually has dementia, I'd like to know. Get back to me when Biden thinks he's in the 80's, or he can't remember Kamala's name. Flubbing a few words while public speaking(to millions no less) or falling off a bike with cages is completely normal. If they said it was early dementia or something, I'd say that's plausible, but they've been saying that for almost 10 years now. It's the same shit they always pull, just throw a bunch of outlandish claims repeatedly knowing most people's political knowledge is facebook memes.
I'm not trying to start an argument on this, I just would actually like to know the answer. I keep seeing shit about how the Dems had 50 years to codify Roe, but REFUSED to. Was there actually a time in the last 50 years where we definitively had enough votes to get past the filibuster? Like all this garbage social media political shit makes it sound like it'd be super easy to pass, but I remember support for abortion rights when I was a kid being pretty abysmal.
I'm not a neuropsychologist, but I am a Clinical Psychologist at the VA and used to do full-time cognitive assessments for geriatric patients. Dementia isn't dichotomous, but it's on a spectrum like any other neurocognitive disorder and it's pretty obvious both candidates have age-related declines.
Our executive functioning (frontal lobe) typically peaks around late 20's and everyone starts to show some declines once they hit late 50's or 60's, which is why some professions require retirement at a certain age (e.g. FAA requires retirement at age 65yo). Any gero psychologist would tell you both Biden and Trump have some level of neurocognitive impairment and should not be the leader of the free world. Even for people with very obvious dementia (e.g. Mitch McConnell, Dianne Feinstein, etc) there are no fail-safes in US politics.
I echo the appreciation that others have posted regarding your professional insight.
I am a speech-language pathologist, and I have my own professional opinions regarding both candidates. Each of them certainly has age-related cognitive decline. Having experience working with children and adults with dysfluent speech (stuttering), I feel my concerns are almost identical.
Overall, linguistic cohesion and sequencing of their messages seem lacking. Most worrying to me are instances when they are not self-monitoring and repairing their messages (e.g., using the wrong president's name, the name of an incorrect country, not adequately answering the question, etc.).
I was pleasantly surprised at how Biden performed during the State of the Union, overall.
Considering the population size of the U.S., it is ridiculous that these are the two front runners. In my mind, the two options from the major parties signal how deficient the two-party system is.