You may know frontotemporal degeneration or FTT as the disease that recently forced Bruce Willis to retire from acting.

While it's the most common form of dementia for adults under age 60, many people, even doctors, aren't familiar with it.

Uncharacteristic personality changes, apathy, and unexplained struggles with decision-making,

movement, speaking, or language comprehension are the most common symptoms. It is often misdiagnosed

as bipolar disorder, depression, and sometimes just a midlife crisis. It's World FTT Awareness Week.

You can learn more about this disease

and the important steps you can take

to preserve and maximize quality of life

by visiting the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

at theaftD.org.

Find help. Share hope. Go now to the afted.org. The oldest warning sign, how history links the death of comedy to the death of democracy. We've seen this movie before, or at least our grandparents did. Dictators can't take a joke.

On February 4, 1939, seven months before their invasion of Poland kicked off World War II,

the man with oversight responsibility for German media officially forbade five comedians from ever again performing in public.

As the headline in the New York Times explained,

Goebbels ends career of five Aryan actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.

Their crime, according to Goebbels, was publicly telling, quote,

brazen, impertinent, arrogant, and tactless jokes about the

furor. Their humor, Gerbilz told the press, only appealed to the, quote, society rabble that

followed them with thundering applause, parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets that seemed to have

only the task of proving how little brains people

can get along and even acquire money and prominence.

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