Possible dementia.
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Forgetting the wonderful memories I have got from throughout my life. Three years ago, I was diagnosed with dementia.
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Steve Jobs
Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
It’s often the same with any new, revolutionary thing. People get stuck as they get older. Our minds are sort of electrochemical computers. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.
Not feeling old but everyone treating you that way.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
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View profile →Loving, considerate and loyal.
My wife and I were meant to meet Frank Sinatra before he went on stage in Hamburg. But there was a taxi-drivers’ strike and we were too late.
I don’t have a great fear of anything. I look at things with positive eyes.
Nothing – I’ve got some great tablets!
King Charles III, because he’s working hard to save our planet.
I’m always happiest when I’m with my family.
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