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u/hollow_musse 5h ago
Reverse the pics and it’s me and my 8yo son
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u/fam_photogenic 4h ago
The real hero is the 9-year-old who listens with a smile every single time. 💪
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u/smoretank 46m ago
Or be 8yr old me with ADHD before diagnosis and never remember anything. It was a win win. I didn't remember him and he didn't remember me. Yay.....
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u/Tessabrownx 36m ago
My son’s patience is the only thing keeping my legendary status alive in this house. He’s just waiting for me to breathe so he can go back to his iPad.
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u/Sujana_torge 4h ago
I remember being little and sitting next to my grandfather, looking out the window, watching the cars go by. He’d tell me one of three stories he used to repeat every time we did that. I think they’re tattooed on my mind now, because on long trips—when I’m not the one driving—I find myself staring out the window, and it feels like those stories are playing back in his voice.
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u/diiegojones 22m ago
You will always remember. it is probably one of the greatest gifts that he gave to you and himself. That you will remember him and cherish it.
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u/Kind_Reaction5809 4h ago
Grandparent lore is either dull or crazy. Case in point, my grandpa practically kidnapped my pregnant grandma before fleeing to Arizona where he got arrested for robbing a motel.
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u/space-to-bakersfield 1h ago
My grandmother grew up rich, then when the commies took over they made her deliver ice till she retired. #justeasterneurothings
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u/AsianPiee 4h ago
I’m the original poster of this post, u/Qvistenn was my main but I removed it for personal reasons
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u/luxafelicity 4h ago
My favorite story from my grandma that I heard sooooo many times growing up was about the first car she ever bought herself after she started teaching. It was a Pontiac Firebird (can't remember the year anymore), white exterior with red leather interior. I've always wanted to find a Firebird with that exact coloring but I've never been able to.
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u/Neukleopatra 1h ago
Man I really wish there was an easier way to try and find the exact vehicles you used to own, no clue how unless we all magically kept the VIN numbers 😣
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u/Freaiser 2h ago
The last xmas before my grandpa passed with dementia
He was talking to me about his new grandson
Pointing at a huge picture of a baby
Telling me cute story and how he love that kid so much
Off course... it was me... 35y earlier
R.I.P Grandpa
Kind of broke me and yet... made me smile
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u/realVincenzo 4h ago
Is that like the parent watching the 6 year olds favorite movie for the 20th time this week...because it makes the child happy? Seems like everything circles.
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u/Disastrous_Hyena136 3h ago
My dad has mixed dementia. His stories have regressed from wonderful anecdotes to "spot loves his ball". This hurts. But he is now lifted by my kids stories of their lives in the same way theirs were lifted by his. Unfortunately, he has lost our shared stories. But we had them and my grandkids will have to endure them.
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u/Hoyle33 4h ago
My grandma had dementia for the last few years of her life, so bad towards the end that she would switch stories half way through her sentence. I didn't care, because I knew one day soon would be her last. I listened to the same stories about her family coming over from Italy as long as I could
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u/Confidentium 4h ago
By the looks of that expression, his favorite story must be from when he crawled through the trenches during the war.
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u/HardcoreAvocado 3h ago
I have patients like that. I smile and act interested every time and it makes their day.
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u/AverageMako3Enjoyer 3h ago
And one day you sit there, listening to the story for the umpteenth time, blissfully unaware it would be the last time it was told to you. And when the dust settles you realize the story now exists only in your mind, and you’ve witnessed firsthand how fickle a mind can be. After all, the final time you heard the story you were only so far into your own, and you wonder how long you will be able to hold onto it before it melts away into the folds.
Source: life experiences I guess
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u/smegdawg 3h ago
Our favorite Grandpa around the fire story was him and the log booms.
When he was a kid, he him and his friends would go play on the lake and watch the tugboats pass through the Montlake cut towing log booms.
The older boys would swim out to the booms climb up on them and ride the. My grandpa tried it and he slipped while climbing up the log and the undertow caught him. his hands were holding onto the log but the undertow was pulling him to hard to pull up, and if he let go he would be stuck underwater for the whole length of the boom or get smashed between to logs.
An older kid saw him go down and yanked him out of the water. He the boy laid into him so hard that he never tried to climb on the booms again.
RIP gramps!
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u/WelcomeMachine 3h ago
I was 62 last year and listened to my Mom's stories over and over.
Wish I could still.
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u/GreyMead 3h ago
I knew a guy with alzheimer's who told me the same three jokes every time I saw him - I let him see that I enjoyed it because it was one of the few things that I knew made him happy
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u/ApoTheAnswer 2h ago
I’d give a leg to be able to hear once again my grandpa telling me about his last day of military service or the story about him and his brother killing and eating their cat because they were hungry during the nazi occupation, or the story about how his horse died. He was always shedding a tear when telling those story and I was sitting there knowing the story already and not knowing I how much I would miss those times.
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u/RallyPointAlpha 2h ago
Me with my father in-law lol
Tell me again about the rock apes in 'nam, my man!
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u/thegreaterfool714 2h ago
I wish my Grandma would retell her stories. Her Alzheimer’s has advanced so much it’s hard for her to complete thoughts and sentences. It’s made more difficult that she’ll speak in 3 different languages and I only understand English.
She’ll devolve into asking for her Mom or begging she can’t work again because her former boss used to sexually harass her.
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u/AceBean27 4h ago
My Grandma with Alzheimer's stories were always completely fictional and fairly racist.
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u/Jslatts942 3h ago
I believe the only thing i said on the phone to my Grandma when i was a youngling, was "Yes, yep, yea, yes, yep, yea, Love you too, Bye!" Xbox was waiting.
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u/SquarePegRoundWorld 2h ago
I think my favorite repeated story from my grandfather was the one where his neighbor down the block painted their house purple to spite another neighbor near it. I always though, how the heck would painting your own house purple make someone else mad? We have a name for those people now, who would get mad at someone's choice of house color, Karens.
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u/BatManatee 2h ago
My grandma's dementia is progressing so she gets stuck on certain ideas like this. I get the best of it though, and it's usually sweet. We threw her a milestone birthday party not too long ago. She had a few sayings she'd repeat to her also elderly friends each time she looked at a few of us.
For me it was: "That's my grandson Batmanatee--he has a PhD!"
For my sister's husband (with young kids): "That's my grandson in law, he is just THE BEST dad".
But when she saw my sister it was: "Honey you look tired from the little ones. Are you getting enough sleep?" repeated again and again lol. She meant well.
I gave my sister such a hard time about it after lol. "Educated", "Best dad", and "Tired" lmao.
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u/sunsetdrifter0 1h ago
When they served in Vietnam and are at point where they are more than comfortable talking about that time they saw their friend fall into a punji pit or when they were tossing out Viet cong out of the helicopter coming back to base
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u/kokujinzeta 1h ago
My dad did two fucking tours in Vietnam. When his Alhheimers hit, I feared he would be stuck in that loop. He has no recollection the war, or losing mom to cancer or my nephew's debilitating accident. In his head, mom's alive but is okay with him dating the nurses and my nephew --a baseball/basketball star he sees on the TV.
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u/yugimugi 1h ago
That’s me with my grandma currently, I’m her caretaker and have listened to all her stories countless times.. and I do it everytime with a smile on my face :)
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u/fantastic_usernamejk 1h ago
My grandfather who had dementia passed away 3 weeks ago. This couldn’t be more real and I’m so glad to have heard him talk about his time as a pilot more times than I could count. Miss you a lot, Saba 🕊️
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u/Tessabrownx 35m ago
Does he at least give you the "Lego smile" while you’re mid-story, or has he already started giving you the "reality check" that he’s heard this one before?
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u/Potential-Bird-5826 20m ago
My aging dad telling me his favourite story for the 100th time. Me at 45 listening along because I love him.
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