# Can saying the wrong word be a sign of dementia? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 29, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-saying-the-wrong-word-be-a-sign-of-dementia/951586 "2021-09-29T16:26:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-saying-the-wrong-word-be-a-sign-of-dementia/951586/4 "2021-09-29T20:53:16Z")
Read the threads here about Senior Moments: > [@Had a senior moment today and it almost made me cry](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/had-a-senior-moment-today-and-it-almost-made-me-cry/919415): > > I was taking the blades off the riding mower for sharpening and was wearing a pair of work gloves. Got the blades off and scraped a bunch of accumulated grass out of the underside of the deck. Took the blades over to my rigged up blade sharpening setup where I intended to sharpen them as usual with an electric angle grinder with a rubber pad and a sanding disk. I sat down with the grinder and thought “hey, best put the gloves back on for this.” I started looking for the gloves I had been wearin… If what you describe is dementia a significant fraction of posters here also have it–which I don’t believe is true. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-saying-the-wrong-word-be-a-sign-of-dementia/951586)._