Right on, Jackie!

After 14 years of PD, I blessedly have few voice problems, but I know how disabling even that much can feel. Our society counts on visual cues and values speed in communication--not only speaking (I am constantly surprised at how politicians can get in so much trouble both for what they do and don't say as well as how they say it) but in telephoning, texting, twittering, faxing, and facebooking (is "facebook" a verb yet?).

Unfortunately all of this frenetic activity does not necessarily mean there is any more communication. And because the Parkinsonian body language lies, confounding anyone studying it for clues as to meaning, and the voice masks the intelligence and creativity in the mind, what we have to say is easily mistaken for what people want to hear.