Here are a few good points about having Parkinson’s Disease:

1) At sporting events, you can sit in the in the roomier, better view sections available for folks with disabilities.

2) If you get stopped by the police, it's doubtful you'll ever have to be told to freeze.

3) When you go out to eat with friends, and the bill comes, you can say, "Let me pick this one up," and be in no danger of ever actually having to pay.

4) If you play poker, nobody will be able to tell what kind of hand you have by the expression on your face.

5) You are a natural for the rhythm section of a reggae band. All you have to do is try not to hit on the backbeat.

6) You can eat soup just as easily with a fork or spoon.

7) You can confidently buy stock in bottled water, knowing the volume you alone drink in one day is enough to keep values high.

8) It's easy to cut down on trips to the bank. Any time you need a little cash, just check your washing machine for money you left in pockets when you couldn't get those uncooperative greenback bills into your wallet.

9) Some philosopher once defined intelligence in this way: "The extent to which you accept things as they are because they have to be the way they are."

10) That same hand that can no longer safely hold soup in a spoon is great for sprinkling parmesan - especially if those seated near you don't mind a little as well

11) A wayward finger combined with a computer mouse can send you places on the internet you otherwise might never know about

12) you can get on a plane with all the small children and babies for first dibs at the overhead compartments

13) You're excused from helping the host at a dinner party for being too slow and dangerous - "just give that woman a glass of wine and find her a seat!"

14) You get to know all the other great people who have PD!