Should I tell people I have Parkinson’s? What are the benefits of doing so and what might hold me back from saying it?

Well, since I’m writing about it in a blog I can say that I have told people and I do think there are benefits from being open about the condition. When I was first diagnosed I told my immediate family and my employer then my friends when I saw them or spoke to them. To my children, who were quite young at the time and had seen how I had problems with my hand, we said that I had a condition that would not get better and that it affected and will affect my mobility. It was a few months later we told them it was Parkinson’s.

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