Avram in MD – how right you are. When I was in graduate school (many years ago) I was at a sheva brochos when a grandparent of the kallah took my hand and began a long discussion of how awful and anti-Torah college is and how I was endangering myself by going there. I felt quite resentful at what I assumed to be condescension by a “super-frumie.” Later I found out that this person was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s Disease. It’s sometimes hard to tell when a person is impaired. And if this person isn’t impaired neurologically, they’re certainly impaired socially – autistic, perhaps, or with some other problem.
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