[ WP ] Your mother has been dating someone for a while and it 's time to meet his family . However , you find that you already know one of them

`` Dad?'' You ask with incredulity. 
 `` Yes, son, it's me!'' 
 `` But, how did I miss this? I would've thought this would be pretty noticeable.'' 
 Your father has tears in his eyes, you can tell this is a very emotional moment for him, and the rest of your family is noticeably moved as well, `` We thought the same thing.'' 
 You hear someone in your family say something about lucidity. 
 `` When you first started to have your episodes, we had no idea what was going on. We thought it was a joke, but it carried on for much too long.'' 
 You learn that for the past 5 years, you have been suffering from early onset dementia. It usually is found in patients in their early 40s, which is what took so long for doctors to diagnose you. You are the youngest known case of this disease, you first started showing symptoms at around 18, 3 years before the previous record holder. Your family watched you slip in and out of reality. Your parents never separated in the first place, you somehow created this reality for yourself, which is another quite rare symptom of the crushing disease, and is what threw doctors off the trail for the first year of your disease. 
 `` So, you cured me?'' You say in disbelief, as far as you knew, Alzheimer's had no cure. 
 `` Well,'' you mother says, `` it's hard to know for sure. You've been started on a new treatment. And it's shown promise in other patients, but as long as you're lucid, we're happy.'' 
 `` Who's that?'' You ask, as you see a strange man in the room that you had n't noticed before. 
 `` Do n't you know me?'' He replies, choking back tears. He puts his arm around your mother's shoulder, squeezing her close. 
 `` GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF HER!'' You scream. Astonished by the nerve of this man, `` LEAVE HER ALONE!'' 
 Your mother begins to sob, he must be hurting her, you lunge at him, tackling him to the ground, ready to fight to the death. 
 
 `` He's sedated for now, but until he's screened, I suggest you do n't return to see him, Mr. Carmichael'' the doctor says. `` I know, it must be hard. I'm so, so sorry.'' 
 Mr. Carmichael is sobbing again, `` why?'' He's asks to no one in particular. `` Why must it be like this?''
