Since several people refered to him as an old man, a correction :
Quasimodem isn’t old. Unfortunately for him, he had a precocious onset of Alzheimer. IIRC, he is in his late 50s.
Quoting in agreement.
Quasi’s posts on this board have been nearly identical to the progression that my grandmother went through. She started to become a little forgetful, and then became aware that she was more than just a little forgetful. Then she began to show serious personality changes - aggressive sometimes (very out of character for her), sad and mopey sometimes, and often very paranoid that she was being made fun of, watched, or followed.
I’m not saying Quasi’s disease progression is identical to that, just that it’s been very painfully familiar to me watching it happen. And I think the absolute worst thing of all of this is all of the people who have herded themselves around him and declared that they are his defense league or whatever and that they will gallantly protect him from all harm, like he’s a child that can’t defend himself. Alzheimer’s is horrifying, and it terrifies me, and the thought of a bunch of message board friends feeling like they have to band together to protect me from myself is just… it’s awful.
Quasi said over and over that he wanted to be treated like everyone else. He’s clearly recognized that he’s not able to post here in his current condition and continue to be treated like everyone else, so he’s taking a hiatus. I think that’s a really smart, really good move. I hope he’s able to come back to us. I hope his disease progression is slow and that he continues to have a good quality of life.
And finally I would just like to add that I think this disease sucks and if it were a person I would stab it to death with extreme prejudice.
Depends on your definition of ‘living’. The interactions he has with people on this board could extend the valuable part of his life worth living. He hasn’t asked for special favors, and I don’t ask any for him. But I hope the cowards who criticize him from behind the safety of a firewall, all the while knowing his condition and the reason for his outbursts should suffer their own aging in lonely despair. I doubt they’ll even learn from such an experience since they don’t have the same level of sensibility that **Quasi **does now even in his condition. But I want to thank them for giving me a reason to stay alive as long as I can. I will take great pleasure in learning of their own descent into a hellish nightmare.
You’re a sick fuck.
I’m going to be very, very blunt: did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe, it’s NOT such a hot idea to let someone with Alzheimers go online unsupervised? Not so much on the Dope, I’m not talking about here. But with all the spam in the mail, and people looking to take advantage of you, THAT could be a real detriment to Quasi.
As for the “poor, lonely old man”, Quasi has family, he has friends, he has hobbies. I would think that THAT might be a little more important than the butthurt posters around here getting up in arms over some flame war.
You’ve already said this.
There is something really wrong with you.
Okay, I haven’t been keeping track of this very much, so I’d like to ask something: if I’m reading this thread right, there are claims that some of the posters in the other thread(s) in question were deliberately prodding Quasi in the hopes of getting some sort of dementia-fueled explosion out of him. Is this true?
You’re right. I should get some therapy so I can enjoy engage in mob ridicule of the actions by a man who’s having trouble controlling his behavior.
Once again I can’t argue with you. I really regret my suggestion that Quasi should respond to all spam email, and of course the part where I said no one on the SDMB is his friend, nor is there anything here of interest for him. I really am stupid for not considering those things that I must have said according to you.
Yeah, me. I really need that therapy so I can take pleasure in being smug and condescending like you.
There’s no indication, at least in the D-Day thread, that the posters who were disagreeing with Quasi were intentionally trying to trip him up or getting any kind of pleasure out of his condition. mhendo, who dropped the infamous douchebomb, simply seems to have a different idea about the best way to show respect for Quasi (ironic, given the topic of that thread) than people who think he should be sheltered and protected.
Which makes TriPolar’s repeated statements that he can’t wait until other posters develop a similar condition so he can get his kicks laughing at them sound that much more sociopathic and sadistic, to be quite frank.
ETA: Dudebro, you are not only smug and condescending, you are seeing shit (“mob ridicule”) that ain’t there.
He’s still being bashed in that thread today, even when everyone knows he’s not around to defend himself, and they also know the reason for the statements he made. This makes them cowards. This thread was a pitting of people who defended him. I’m proud to be pitted here. You can take the side of defending his assailants if you want.
Who the fuck is bashing him? By saying he was acting like everyone else? By saying, gee, Quasi was acting like, duh, himself? By actually taking the guy seriously?
Tripolar, would you rather have waited until Quasi got so bad he had to banned?
Besides, maybe, just maybe, his wife has more of a claim on his time than we do? Maybe she wants to spend what little time he has left with him? I think she deserves it.
Quasi’s not a blind dog that needs to be carried around all the time. He’s gotten pissed before when he felt that people treated him different due to his illness.
I LIKE Quasi. He’s good people. And it’s really painful watching him deteriorate like this. Especially since he’s at that in-between stage where he’s still aware he’s got a problem. It’s probably really painful for him, too.
I figured this was going to happen eventually. If he’s just taking a break, and comes back, I hope he can manage. But I also hope the mods won’t have to ban him, because there’s going to become a time when he can’t post anymore, and people are going to fucking freak out.
If you’re reading this Quasi, like I said, you’re a cool guy. I just don’t like seeing people treated like children, just because they have an illness.
Your reality is not actual reality, you know that? Why don’t you link to one post from that thread today that is bashing Quasimodem. It shouldn’t be too hard, there aren’t that many posts from today and most of them seem to be about kitten gloves.
While you are at it, tell me more about how gleefully anticipating being able to laugh at Alzheimer’s sufferers gives you the moral high ground. You keep accusing other people is taking pleasure in his illness but the only one who seems to be into that sort of thing is you.
I thought mhendo’s comment was over the line, but I understand and respect his rationale for making it. No one in that thread is joyfully and maliciously attacking Quasi the way you claim they are. The whole situation is sad and unfortunate but you and BigT aren’t helping him with your hyperboles and flat out untruths.
Personally, I’m hoping to live long enough to see your decline into senility, you sanctimonious bitch. [/schadenfreude]
Yes. I haven’t recommended coddling him at at all. If he’s ranting, I ignore him, because I know where it comes from. If he doesn’t follow the rules, the results should follow. In this case he chose to opt out himself. If I should end up in the same position as **Quasi **some day I hope I can handle it with the same dignity he has done so far. If he has to be banned some day, that is the way it will be if *he chooses *to continue. He’s not a basket case, he has good days and bad, and the percentage of bads will probably increase, as will the degree as well. I’m a hot head with a hair trigger temper myself, but I have no trouble ignoring his outbursts because I know ahead of time they lack malicious intent. It’s the least I could do for anyone.
Do I even know you, person with bizarre rage issues?
No, and God willing, you never will.
Too right, brother.
How delightfully random and crazy for this to be your first post in the thread.
BOO!
I’ve read the whole thread, and even participated in the one that precipitated it. That was the first point in this thread I felt an urge to comment. Good enough? Or do I need your permission, first?
Would you like my permission? I can find the good stationery and maybe we can work something out.