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This genuinely felt like a weird scam to me. I had no idea it existed, but apparently there’s a whole host of childhood conditions that can cause childhood dementia.

That’s very upsetting.

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555@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Still kinda sounds like a scam. This particular video I mean. Because I act the same way when I’m high af. Having known people who actually have dementia, this is not how they act.

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- Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No idea about this particular girl, but there’s plenty of authentic disorders that can cause childhood dementia:
  
  Batten Disease (Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses, NCL)
  
  Sanfilippo Syndrome (Mucopolysaccharidosis Type III, MPS III)
  
  Niemann-Pick Disease Type C, GM1 and GM2 Gangliosidosis (Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff Disease)
  
  Leukodystrophies (such as Metachromatic Leukodystrophy and Krabbe Disease)
  
  Mitochondrial Disorders (such as Leigh syndrome)
  
  Rett Syndrome
  
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  - Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Watch video and watch follow up video and damn that is fucked. In the second video a child young as 2 got that shit. We need a cure yesterday
    
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OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The donation link is above all of the social media (Facebook, Twitter/X, etc.) ones so the focus seems on bringing in money rather than raising awareness.

Nations used to have functioning government systems that would fund this stuff - not just in children but in adults too. But right-wing parties seem in control of everything lately, thus such children that provide less tangible benefits to society will get triaged in terms of available funding.

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