GO FIGURE! ive known my mum puts on an act for years now BUT this was too much and although sad quite "funny".
We had visitors yesterday very rare anywhoo my aunt and cousin came and we went for a nice lunch.
When i got up mum was up,dressed,makeup,hair done and cleaned the bathroom and the front room!
Was quite pleasant and chirpy my cousin commented that he found it hard to believe she had "dementia" for a moment she had me convinced aswell???? yes a moment!
WELL they had not even left five minutes when she chucked all her clothes off put on her smelly pjs sat in the chair and was almost asleep and demanded i make her a cup of tea! I said NO you are quite capable of making your own tea now as you seemed quite "perky" earlier or was that an act? She screamed at me and said in quite an aggressive way "of course its a bloody act and now im tired so make me a cup of tea do you think its easy to be perky?"
Well you could have knocked me down with a feather! So she actually admitted to putting on an act??
It made me realise that she is taking the piss out of me at times and she can do alot more than she pretends!!!
I am still in shock!
I'm sure it's exhausting pretending to be something you're not for several hours. Showtiming requires much concentration, memorization, and acting nice and sweet. How exhausting would it be for us to behave as if we had dementia for 3 or 4 hours!
I hope your mom got her own tea. ;-)