Some very important points are made here by cs.
Unfair assessments by doctors, friends, family - and even strangers - can wreak havoc on PD - and on lives in general - . If you let them get to you and take more and more medicine in an attempt to be 'normal' you will begin to have offs that will get more and more debilitating and more and more frequent.

Society judges harshly because society judges flippantly, in self-protection. If they can believe that we're just being lazy and giving in to PD and not trying hard enough to function as well as we did before PD, we don't really need help and compassion.

Some of the traits so obviously shared here are a bristling personal pride, a mulish stubbornness and a burning desire to postpone and suppress the symptoms of progression for as long as possible.

But our need for tranquility makes us seem lazy, it makes us seem to give in to the illness. We are peace makers. We can't afford stress. Stress can cause days of feeling ill. I think Everett is right: Stress is what made us ill in the first place.

So disregard all contempt and be as lazy as it takes to function.