There was a time when my mother, I even mention this in the book, used the words 'dad and mom' a lot. And we wondered what was going on… Because when she was calling her mother and father, mother, who had died decades ago, right?
Then we came to know that, in fact, the brain, dear, of the person with Alzheimer's, goes backwards in such a way… And what remains are the first memories, the first words they learned to speak in life. And the words we learn to say in life are 'mom and dad'. So, in fact, her brain was already tiny, she was already living in a past that was childish, she became infantilized, it's desperate, it's a panic that gives us, it's an immense suffering. Writer Marcelo Rubens Paiva, son of Eunice Paiva
Eunice Paiva lived with Alzheimer's for 14 years and died on December 13, 2018, in São Paulo, at the age of 86.
'We were, yes, a privileged white family'
No UOL Newsthe writer also admitted that he had a privileged white family, but highlighted that when his father disappeared, a victim of the military regime, his CPF also disappeared.
My mother stared [a luta] alone, with five children and no money, because we couldn't use my father's investments, because of the few investments my father had already spent everything on politics, on his political campaign, in exile… We lived in Leblon in a rented house.
