Just take FMLs as they should be, which is entertaining. Douchebag.

Lighten the **** up. It's not like she's giving her grandmother's name or her grandmother will ever know. the point of this site is to share shitty things that happen to people and yeah, to find some dark humor in them. This is very sad, but a good FML. If you don't like this site then get off of it.

Maybe if you had a loved one who was no longer in control of their actions, you'd find posting about it on a site like this a little more shameful, since this site is basically made for people to point and laugh at the situation -- who wants a bunch of strangers to laugh at their situation when it involves a loved one? Of course, is is a FML, especially for the grandmother, and for the people that are close to her. That doesn't warrant posting about it on this site. Situations like this happen daily with Alzheimer's patients and with other disabled/handicapped people who are not in control of their actions, and so do other tragic accidents. Sometimes, all you can do in the situation is laugh, but to post it for others on a site like this just isn't what should be done.

When someone is not aware of what they are doing, rather, is unable to be aware of what they are doing, I find it wrong to have on this site. That's the difference between this FML and most, most FML I actually find somewhat amusing. I know if it was my grandmother, I wouldn't go around saying "And today... she talked to her slipper like it was her son! Then she kissed it! FML" -- If I did, I could fill up this place with Alzheimer's stories. I imagine a lot of people could.

Well, I doubt that the little **** (again, grandma's words - not mine) could take this one over to the alzheimer's support group for a laugh. And we are all making some broad assumptions about this OP. Maybe grandma did recognize her at some point and thinks she is a ****...I'm just sayin', we weren't there...

And, you are right - making fun of grandma for talking to her slipper would be cruel. But the point here is that OP was being beaten with a cane and branded a **** because of grandma's condition. I guess she could have left alzheimers out of the equation, but then we would have all been a little confused by the story (she could have just said grandma was an alcoholic I suppose).

That's not true about not being able to post this on an Alzheimer's support site. There are places on those sites for stories like this, I guess you just haven't had need to visit them. You'd at least get more encouraging feedback from people there, and yes, they probably would find the stories amusing, but with the added fact they are in a similar situation and understand -- they can then tell you something similar that happened to them. When you aren't personally affected by a situation like Alzheimer's it can be easy to look at it from that "Tell me what your grandmother did today!! Lighten up!!" point of view like it's something to simply to be laughed at. When Alzheimer's happens to someone close to you and you're the one living with it's consequences daily, in retelling stories like this (if you do not find them too personal) you'd realise that you want to share them with people that understand -- family, close friends, or others going through the same kind of situation. It can be hard to share these kind of stories, people who react by laughing or making disparaging remakes are not the kind of people you want to share with. It's a personal matter that family's go through, so to share these type of stories with people that have nothing better to do than laugh would make you feel (in a normal situation, if the person you are talking about is someone you love) like you are disrespecting your loved one and the situation to open up to people like that. Therefore, to post it on this site knowingly, where stories are designed to get a laugh out of people, to me, equals the OP being disrespectful. Anyway, I do not have anything else to say; besides that if you lived with it, you might understand better what I am saying.

Sometimes people need to be able to laugh in order to get through the pain. To be serious, for just one second, I'm sure the OP cares a great deal about her grandma and her family is no doubt devastated by grandma's deteriorating condition. But everyone is so serious, and it is probably a kleenex-fest over on the Alzheimer web sites.. so she posted it here. So climb down off your high horse, I don't like when people look me in the eye!

Yeah, they need to laugh, I agree. However, you don't see other disability stories on here -- I don't see any stories about autism or down's syndrome, this isn't the place for them. The people at Alzheimer's sites are very understanding, they do find the stories funny, and that should be the place to share stories if you feel the need to do so with strangers online.