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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
Alzheimer's is different from "oldtimers" and both those are totally different from sometimer's.
Some times I remember, some times I forget...
Alzheimer's is generally characterized by beta-amyloid plaques on the neurons that causes 1st short-term memory loss, then long-term memory loss. Eventually the sufferers forget how to do non-voluntary functions such as breathing...
Oldtimer's is just generated by age and old. It is not medical and most folks are cantankerous.
Sometimer's is generated by age and is middle-aged. It too is not medical and most folks who have it are honery.
I am nowhere close to be an awesome supermoderator... If that comment was not for me, for that I apologize since some folks on GC are rather touchy and hardcore about appropriatly stating everything on a "free for all" board. But, hey, we have some level of decorum.
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I know what Alzheimer's is, I work in the medical field myself. I also know a lot of people who pronounce Alzheimer's as Oldtimers and it really annoys the hell out of me.
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