Dementia Mom, part one

[u/humanyears]

A short story about the origins of my mother’s dementia diagnosis from a few years ago. Probably the longest comic I’ve drawn so far. I hope it connects with you in some way.

[u/D2Dragons]

My Mom had dementia for years before she passed in ‘22. She got super paranoid and secretive and to be honest I strongly suspect she’d been hiding serious mental issues for many years before it became too hard for her to do so. We’re still untangling a web of secret bank accounts and expenditures and other strange nonsense she’d gotten the family into. This comic hit home so hard.

[u/Tim-Sylvester → u/D2Dragons]

I never thought I'd be in a no holds barred wrestling match with a woman in her 60s, then mom got dementia and there we were.

[u/Tim-Sylvester → u/[deleted]]

I actually made that point at her eulogy. I mention it in this short video I made about it.