Pity Is A Benign Form Of Abuse.

A Lot Of Times, When You Have A Disability, One Of The Things You Deal With Is Other People's Projections Of What Your Experience Is And Their Fear About It, And Not Seeing The Experience You're Having. There's Nothing Horrifying About It To Me. It Is What I Deal With. It Is My Reality And My Life, But It's Not Horrible.

With Parkinson's, It's Like You're In The Middle Of The Street And You're Stuck There In Cement Shoes And You Know A Bus Is Coming At You, But You Don't Know When. You Think You Can Hear It Rumbling, But You Have A Lot Of Time To Think. And So You Just Don't Live That Moment Of The Bus Hitting You Until It Happens. There's All Kinds Of Room In That Space.

Ironic That In Order To Do My Life's Work, I Had To Quit My Day Job.

Just As Parkinson's Isn't A Big Topic Of Conversation In My House, Neither Is My Career.

That's The Way I Look At Things - If You Focus On The Worst Case Scenario And It Happens, You've Lived It Twice. It Sounds Like Pollyanna-ish Tripe But I'm Telling You - It Works For Me.