Know Multiple Sclerosis

Recently, I've been telling more people that I have multiple sclerosis.  I still am not really sure why...I guess after I did it a few times, it was easy.  I am very picky about whom I tell.  If it's someone at work, I make sure I trust them not to go tell everyone else.

The more people I have told, the more predictable their responses have become.  Of course, there are the standard:

• "Are you sure you have that and not something else?"
• "Do you have any bad symptoms?"
• "How has your family handled it?"
• "Is there medication for you?"
• "But you're not in a wheelchair...you look so good."
  

Recently, someone's first response was, "No, you don't; that only happens to women."  Awesome.

So, when he asked what kind of symptoms I have, I included in the list hallucinations and that I thought I might be turning into a woman..  I told him that, in fact, I thought I was having a hallucination right then.  He freaked out for a minute and then I stopped.  I really shouldn't make fun - if I didn't happen to have MS, I wouldn't know anything about it either.  I was just bored with the same explanations for all the same questions.