My mum has Alzheimers. She's still able to live at home enjoy a chat and the telly etc but but her memory has pretty much gone. She is quite a proud person. She has 3 daughters and often gets me muddled up with my oldest sister. She thinks of me as being much younger than I am. Anyhow when I saw her yesterday she kept on asking me about my job as a teacher. Is it half term, what subjects do I teach, which school etc.I'm not a teacher and never have been neither is my sister (although she has worked in education). Several times yesterday I told her that I'm not a teacher partly, if I'm honest because I'm miffed that she has never really appreciated what I've acheived in my profession, and partly in a vain hope to live in reality with my mum for just a bit longer. However I wonder if it is pointless/ a bit cruel to keep 'correcting'her over these sorts of things. Should I just go along with it say yes it's half term, I teach English in Blah Academy etc? I'm just not sure if we are quite there yet and when the next person comes along and says 'but apricot isn't a teacher/ hasn't three children/doesn't live in xtown' will it be harder for mum to know which way is up? When did/will you start going along with stuff?
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