# Ask The Guy With Early Onset Alzheimer's (Inspired by DMark)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-with-early-onset-alzheimers-inspired-by-dmark/496025>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 11, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-with-early-onset-alzheimers-inspired-by-dmark/496025 "2009-05-11T14:10:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-with-early-onset-alzheimers-inspired-by-dmark/496025/61 "2009-05-20T03:04:09Z")

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For anyone who doesn’t get HBO, the Altzheimers Project series is available on Fancast for free.

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-with-early-onset-alzheimers-inspired-by-dmark/496025/62 "2009-05-21T01:03:00Z")

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**Mama Z**  
Thank you for your kind words. It really is true that I have nothing to hide any longer, so why not share it all with you?

Thanks for sharing the link with your friend and my best wishes to them both.

Here’s a link to the question you asked.

[http://biomed.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/full/60/6/736](http://biomed.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/full/60/6/736)

Surprised?

I was…

Quasi

> [@Mama\_Zappa](#):
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> Quasi - just wanted to say (as I know others have before) THANK YOU for being so visible on the boards with all of this. Your grace and sense of humor are good for us all. I took the liberty of forwarding links to this and your blog to a friend-of-a-friend whose husband is going through the same process, and I know the wife has been feeling so alone in having such a young husband with this crappy disease.
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> Which raises another question: are there any gender biases in EOAD? as in, does it affect males more than females or vice versa? or is it an equal-opportunity bastard?

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