Despite the White House insisting he remains in "perfect" health, Mr Trump fed the flames of speculation during a rally in Dalton, Georgia, this week, ahead of the November mid-terms. Addressing the crowd, the president made an offhand comment about Chinese president Xi Jinping, who he said "was here last week".

In reality, Xi visited the US and met with Mr Trump during a three-day trip from September 23 to 25, around three weeks ago. The apparent blunder sparked a flurry of reactions on social media, with one user labelling him "Dementia Donnie". Another wrote: "He doesn't [know] what day it is. It's gonna get worse as he goes along."

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[–] 33 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

TIL Neurotypicals are able to remember how many weeks ago something occured.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

    I'm neurotypical and I don't remember exact dates. I don't even know how far into the month it is most of the time. Or really what day it is unless I look.

    In fact, now that I think about it most of my personal history is kind of like slices of events that don't seem to make any sense or are even clustered together relative to each other, temporally speaking, nor ordered in any kind of chronological way. More like a sherbet swirl.

    Meh, probably not important. Time keeping seems sort of extraneous in the big scheme of things, except when timing experiments which, of course, should be exact. Or making appointments, I suppose. Which I lean heavily on others to do and keep track of. Or sometimes I check my phone but the calendar events are often not up to date unless I put it on auto clone. But did I clone the specific date... or the day of the week...? Ugh, which means it's probably off.

    Eh, that's why nobody should use these things, too many unimportant details to keep track of.

    ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  • [–] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    I thought having a precise internal clock and calendar were ND things but I'm always glad to learn

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