// posted December 4, 2009 by Lou Schuler
The news about my mother gets more disturbing all the time. At Thanksgiving dinner, I was told, she referred to her daughter-in-law with a vile epithet … even though she was in that daughter-in-law’s home, and the insulted person had just cooked dinner for 11 members of our family.
I’m sorry to be vague about what was said; it would be a much more interesting and powerful story if I just repeated the insult, especially if I described the context. But because I have filters, I won’t. My family would never forgive me, and I wouldn’t expect them to.
The open question is whether my mother was always thinking such nasty thoughts about the people around her, and we only know it now because dementia has removed her filters.
If that’s the case, all I can say is, thank goodness for filters.
So here’s a question: How many times a day do your filters…
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