What condition might this guy have had?

Factual Questions
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I was getting some personal numbers (ssn, DOB, insurance ID# etc.) from a guy who was in his late seventies the other day and he kept putting the number 300 in there where it didn’t belong. It didn’t take me lond to figure out, especially since a social only has 9 digits, but when I did, I noticed it every time he did it. He was otherwise coherent, but the manner in which the number seemed to insert itself into his thoughts suggested to me that it might have been more than just absent mindedness.

I thought it might be either dementia or Alzheimer’s, possibly the beginnings of garden variety senility, but IANAD. Does this sound like anything specific to any of you?

2

One more try…

3

maybe Tourette’s? Since everything else was coherent, it doesn’t sound like any kind of dementia.

4

OCD

Winston

5

Another vote for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. I knew a guy who would insert the phrase “praise the lord” into each sentence about 6 times. He didn’t even notice it.

6

I guess it could be. I’ve never heard of OCD manifesting itself like that, I guess I always thought it was more physical actions.

7

Frustrated bowler? :wink: