My own (quite extensive) vocabulary is starting to slip. It always seems the nouns that I can’t find, for some reason. I don't try to hide it, I just say ‘bugger, I’ve lost another noun’, but I can’t say that it’s a pleasant new thing!
Fear of loss of control. Fear of being put into a nursing home against their will.
You know when you start talking and then suddenly forget what you were going to say mid sentence? Or when you walk into a room and forget why you went in there. Or you are looking for your keys and they've been in your hand the whole time. Now imagine that happening every day and even worse, and people around you start noticing and bring it up to you. You'd be scared. You'd think "oh my goodness, what's happening to me? I'd better get my act together" and you'd start to try covering it up.
You know when you start talking and then suddenly forget what you were going to say mid sentence? Or when you walk into a room and forget why you went in there. Or you are looking for your keys and they've been in your hand the whole time. Now imagine that happening every day and even worse, and people around you start noticing and bring it up to you. You'd be scared. You'd think "oh my goodness, what's happening to me? I'd better get my act together" and you'd start to try covering it up.
That's why.
Beware victim-blaming. It's never kind or clever.
That's why.