Confabulation [View all]
I somehow got wrapped up in a long conversation with my ex-husband today. At one point he questioned why my daughter had never called him to make amends as part of her steps. I had no idea what he was talking about. So he told a very detailed story about how I had told him sometime within the last two years that she was in AA and was making amends as part of the 12 steps and was going to call him.
My daughter was never in AA. Never. I never told him any such story.
I've been researching cognitive disorders and my guess is that he's confabulating.
Confabulation is a memory disturbance, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.
Before we had gotten to that stunning part of our conversation, we were stupidly rehashing some things that happened during our marriage, and we were definitely remembering things differently, but that part about my daughter going to AA meetings was glaring.
So, I wonder if that's what's going on with Trump. Lots of similarities. It's terrifying that someone with obvious cognitive impairment has such a following of devoted believers.
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