When I was finally diagnosed after a couple of years of Neurologists, Immunologists, MRIs, Emgs, Muscle Biopsy, etc. I was relieved when a Movement Disorder Specialist confirmed that I had Parkinson's. It really doesn't bother me if some people stare when I shake, walk like a zombie, freeze, posterize or any of the other symptoms that this disease does to me.
Right now I'm just trying to keep my Carbo/Levo 25/100 8-tabs a day for as long as I can.
I was at my grandson's birthday party last year and had tremors in my right hand most of time there. There was a little boy sitting across the table just staring at my shaking hand. It kind of made me smile when he put his hand on the table and started shaking his hand like mine.
It's all the little things that help me to be grateful for what I still have & some of the things I can still do.