このおじいちゃんは84歳でアルツハイマーを患っています。孫の名前は覚えていないけれど、65年前のブートキャンプにいた「臭い奴」のことはまだ覚えているんだ。
This grandfather is 84 and has Alzheimer’s. He doesn’t remember the names grandchildren but he still remembers the “Stinky kid” from boot camp 65 years ago
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“No one remembers those embarrassing moments about you.” Meanwhile this mf.
Meanwhile, that stinky kid told all his grandchildren how well-liked he was and how he made so many “brothers” during his service.
you lose the newest memories first. my grandmother had it
You never forget the stinky kid
The grandkids should stop showering
Ooh yes…. Doodoo brown, The only guy I’ve ever seen that made a Navy dental hygienist have to stop and puke doing an inspection. We forced him into a shower after the 2nd week of refusing to wash himself on deployment.
Smell is super connected to memory in the brain so this is actually pretty interesting.
My mother died from Alzheimer’s, and now I’m the carer of her little brother, with the same affliction.
Long-term, foundational memory stays remarkably intact. My mother remembered the French she learnt in her youth – while struggling to understand who the hell I was.
We need to find him
Oh brother…the stink lingers on
Ok I get it. Smelling good gets you noticed. Smelling bad gets you remembered.
Bro had the cheese touch
Must’ve been one Hell of a stink
This is common for Alzheimers patients.
They can’t form new memories easily, but they can still reach back and find old ones.
You never forget the stinky kid in the barracks. It becomes an unshakable core memory
This disease is one of the awful things that you could get also it could be in a genes so if you’re family have a history you better get checked, like day by day you’re slowly lossing yourself
That’s how it be. My grandfather had Alzheimer’s and he would often start asking my grandma to take him back home when they were in the home where he had been living for 60+years. He was referencing his childhood home where he lived until like 5.
My grandfather was a WWII vet, but he was older when he started a family, so I only really got to know him when he was aging and his Alzheimer’s had begun to take hold. He called me Aaron (not my name), but he was remarkably consistent about it. He’d forget everyone else’s name or use the wrong name, but 100% of the time, he called me Aaron. He never talked much about his time in the war, but our guess was that he served with someone called Aaron who I happened to resemble.
For anybody uneducated it works like a memory card that’s losing total storage space. Just deleted the most recent stuff, making the earlier memories much more vivid.
Man. That stinky kid is probably dead.
You never forget the stink.
Everyone does. Buxton smelled like piss and Alphabet was finally forced to shower.
When my old man ws getting on in years he said this to me once, “I can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but I can remember things from 40 years ago like it was yesterday.”
And now I’m 71 and fully understand what he was saying.
But being the over analytic person I am, and understanding that our memories are just reconstructions of events that we reassemble whenever we “remember” something, it makes me think that when we get old it just gets easier to fabricate new versions of those old events. And we think they are vivid memories because of our aging brains finding it easier to reconstruct old synapse patterns than to create new ones.
Especially, I suppose, the ones that we ruminated over and told stories about for our entire lives.
Can someone translate the nickname? Scramps? Scrange? Scrounge? We have a stinky gen z kid at my work who doesn’t shower and I need a new name for him other than just “stinky” because he still isn’t listening. This sounds right
People do this even without Alzheimer’s
My GM to this day in 2025 refers to the League of Nations like it’s a thing that currently exists. She learned about it in HS and never updated her knowledge after the UN was founded in 1946.
The link between smell and memory is quite the bond; Alzheimer’s doesn’t stand a chance against the stink.
It’s sad but that’s how it works, long term memories are the last to go
Damn we really are all going to get old one day
My mom is 83 has dementia and still remembers when she had to chase me down the street for a good hiding cause I was a little shit
They say you never forget smells 👃
They loose their memory backwards from the moment they start to have alzheimer. It’s starts with small things that just happened. Then it’s the last years, they don’t remember what they did 5 years ago. They can get confused because their loved ones don’t look like they did back then. When their memories reach their adulthood, they look at their family and expect to see young people, not old ones. And it goes back to childhood, to finally be children and do childish things until they’re not able to do anything in their own
Oh no!!! Is that the sailor that had the rectal napkin fall out of his shorts while wrestling?
https://www.reddit.com/r/hygiene/comments/1ohgiz4/i_did_not_wash_my_rear_end_until_i_was_19_years/
I still remember the guy with the micropeen from basic training
I was in the Navy in the 70’s (I’m not quite 84) and we had a “stinky kid” on our ship. Everyone called him “Nasty Nagle” I don’t even remember Nagles actual fist name.