People often mistake Alzheimer's with dementia or the other way around, but as much we know about either one, there is a difference between the two. Dementia is a term used for the declining of cognitive function like memory and thinking and it's severe enough where it affects daily life, whereas Alzheimer's is a degenerative disease and the most common cause of dementia. Alzheimer's is a disease while dementia is the set of symptoms it causes. 60% to 80% of Alzheimer's dise

When I was in California with a friend, we were out front of Knotts Berry Farm for the shuttle to take us back to our hotel. As we were waiting, a woman came up to us and started chatting with us. She asked where we were from and once she heard Canada, she started to ask questions, the one that stuck out the most was if Canada was like anything like Degrassi. Which got me thinking of how different schools are in both Canada and in America or how people think what they see on

Once again, fans of the show are coming up with theories on what’s happening on 911. A call sheet was posted online and it showed that there was going to be a storyline involving the parents of a child that Buck helped conceive since the husband who was a friend of Buck from way back when wasn’t able to get his wife pregnant and had asked Buck to help them have a baby. Fans started to call that baby Buck’s donor baby. The names of the actors who played the child’s parents wer

I feel like the direction of where my blog is going is nowhere near where I want it to be. I wanted to be able to share what I was interested in and also have people learn about mental health and addiction, but as time went on I found that there wasn’t much going on when it came to people reading my blog. I feel like I’m talking, but nobody’s listening. I know I’ve talked about in previous posts, where I feel like I’m not being heard and how it makes me feel knowing I’ve put

Andy Gibb grew up with brothers who were international superstars. He was the baby of the family with a 9 year age gap between him and his twin brothers, Maurice and Robin, but Andy was closer to his brother, Barry. The funny thing is that Andy and Barry were almost like twins despite the age gap, they both looked alike, acted alike and even had the same birthmark. Just like his brothers, Andy had success in the music industry, but he also didn’t want to use his name to get s

Having a brother or sister with autism can be hard. If the siblings have a close relationship then it is beneficial since they have someone that they are comfortable with, but it can also be challenging because the sibling with autism is going to get more attention since they're going to need extra help in their daily lives. Every autism family is different, there’s no two families that are the same. Getting an autism diagnosis is going to be hard and there are going to be a

There was a TV mini-series called Amityville: An Origin Story that was released on one of the streaming sites. During that mini-series, it goes into detail about the DeFeo murders and what happened afterwards when the Lutz family moved in. The more you watch it and get to understand the different sides of what happened, you start to wonder if what you thought was real was all a hoax. At first, you start to feel like for the Defeo family since you don’t know what really happe

Karen Carpenter and her brother Richard performed together as “The Carpenters” from 1970 to 1978. They had hit songs like Top Of The World, Rainy Days and Mondays, and We’ve Only Just Begun. Karen was known for her warm, rich contralto voice and her talent on the drum. She was a very skilled drummer. Behind the scenes, Karen was struggling with an eating disorder called anorexia nervosa. She began to lose weight and her appearance was something that caused everyone to worry

Anna Nicole was never the same after the death of her 20 year old son, Daniel. What appeared to be a happy reunion with her son and newborn daughter turned tragic when Daniel was found unresponsive in her hospital room. He was pronounced dead from a lethal combination of medications including methadone, zoloft and lexapro. Daniel was very close to Anna Nicole. He was the only constant thing in her life. He had been there for her through everything. They relied on each other.

When you're on the autism spectrum, it's hard to figure out where you belong. You live in a world that isn’t adapted for people who face physical and mental challenges. Growing up knowing your different is a struggle. You want to fit in, but you don’t want to hide who you are. There are ways to make sure that a child with autism can feel more accepted and more independent as they get older. Instead of using autism as an excuse, use it as an advantage. Embrace the difference

Jonathan Brandis started acting at a young age. He made his acting debut in One Life To Life as Kevin Buchanan in 1982. Prior to that, he was a child model. By the time the 1990s came, Jonathan was a teen heartthrob who appeared on covers of teen magazines and received thousands of fan mail. He was getting four thousand letters a week. In 1990, he portrayed Bill Denbrough in the television miniseries It , which also starred other well-known actors like John Ritter, Tim Reid

When someone wants validation, it means that they are looking for reassurance, recognition, or acceptance of their feelings, actions, or worth, often rooted in a natural desire for connection or a need to soothe insecurity. It's a way for them to be seen and heard. They want people to know they exist. Posting on social media about their everyday life and wanting likes and comments from people they may not know makes them feel less lonely since they feel like those people are

The woman who is known as the ketamine queen was sentenced to 15 years in her involvement in Matthew Perry’s death. She knew what she was doing and it led to the death of Matthew Perry. Imagine if she was involved in other overdoses, but her involvement in Matthew’s death is how she got caught. It’s about time that someone was held responsible for Matthew’s death. When she learned that it was the drugs she sold was the cause of Matthew’s death, she said she didn’t care and k

Aaron Carter’s career started when he was barely old enough to walk to school by himself. He wanted to perform and because of who his brother was, he was inspired to be just like him. As time went on and fame was coming in fast, Aaron had to experience things that no kid had to deal with at that age. There was so much happening to the point that Aaron had to take things in his own way. There was things going on within his family that made you think why they would put their k

Michael Dunahee was 4 years old when he disappeared from a playground in Victoria, British Columbia. There were no witnesses. It was like Michael disappeared into thin air. The Dunahee family was attending a flag football practice that Michael’s mother, Crystal, was part of. He asked to go across the parking lot to play on the playground. At first, Crystal was hesitant but allowed him if only he stayed at the playground until someone had come to get him. Within minutes, Micha

Things are heating up on 911 and I’m not talking about the fires. If you have been watching the show the last couple of weeks, you know that Eddie and Buck went to Nashville to take part in the Firefighter games that Bobby signed them up for just before he died and while travelling back to L.A by car, they run into a problem while making their way through New Mexico. They get ran off the road. Eddie lands in the hospital and Buck gets kidnapped. All is good and Buck gets save

People believe that the puzzle piece that symbolizes Autism doesn’t represent the condition at all because the puzzle piece makes it look like someone who is on the spectrum is “missing” a piece, makes them look like they're “incomplete” or that they're a “puzzle that needs to be solved. There have been times in history that organizations have tried to “cure” autism by changing the way someone is behaving, by turning something “negative” into a “positive.” Instead of embracin

People have theories about celebrity deaths. They assume that since the covid vaccines came out, celebrities have died because they got vaccinated. People will do anything to come up with some sort of negative thing about the vaccines. If you don’t want it, don’t get it. If a celebrity committed suicide because of mental health struggles, they were “murdered” because they knew too much about something so they were “murdered” to keep them quiet. One common theory among the “th

Ryan White was born in Kokomo, Indiana to his parents, Jeanne and Hubert White. Ryan as a sister named Andrea. In 1984, when Ryan was 13 years old, he was infected with HIV when he received a blood transfusion due to hemophilia, a hereditary blood coagulation disorder associated with the X chromosome, which causes even minor injuries to result in severe bleeding. Ryan was born with this and had endured countless transfusions since he was a baby. The doctors had given him 6 m

I’ve been watching 911 since the beginning and with a lot of the viewers of the show have seen the characters grow, mature and change over the course of the show, but what I find is that if someone doesn’t like a particular character or actor on the show, they will find reasons not to like them in their personal life. There are some hardcore fans that try to bash Tommy and say that he’s always been the same and he’s never really changed as a person. They still think that Tomm

Imagine living in a space that was barely big enough for a family of four, let alone for eight people. That was the reality for Anne Frank and her family for two years during World War 2. The Frank family were Jewish and to be able to stay safe, they hid in the secret annex which was located at the back of Anne’s father, Otto’s business. They had invited another family and a family friend to stay with them. Anne had to share a room with someone she hardly knew while her siste

I have a theory about Oliver Platt’s character in Flatliners.

I don't know where the time went, but I know he's always around. No matter where I go, he's there.

Recently, I received a message on Facebook asking if I was interested in a 20 th high school reunion. It came out of nowhere from a person who I haven’t seen since high school and haven’t talked to since elementary school. I didn’t respond and deleted the message; I also denied his friend request. We never hung out during class or outside of school. We knew the same people since but didn’t run in the same circle. I never thought of him as a friend. The reason I didn’t respon