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She knows my name but can't make the connection with how we're related. She thinks she has a son with my exact name. Even now she repeats back my name, says she has a son with my exact same name. Anyone experience something similar?
Sounds like she's not just having recall issues but her reasoning skills are impacted too now. She can't make inferences.

Yes this is just the next stage in a downward trajectory.
I am so sorry. Hard to go through for sure.
Often elders will try to pretend they know who you are long after they have really ceased to know; they sense something is wrong and they "should know" and thus they pretend that they do.
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