Dejibo - after a few years of being asked how am I feeling over and over and over again, the family members just let me be. Now I am just another family member with an illness/disease and not "special". It was nice when I got to that point where I didn't have to explain exactly how I was feeling every single time I talked to someone. Because no one in the family wanted to educate themselves about MS, I rarely get suggestions on what I should be doing to make myself better. Instead, they think I can't lift a feather, do anything physical and need to rest, rest, rest. That is until they need a favor from me, then my MS is no longer an issue to them.

I'm with Erin in friends or new people I meet disappearing when they find out I have MS. Maybe it's catchy... Wonder who I caught it from.

Then there are those well meaning people that think they know everything there is about my MS just because someone they know has MS. Because to them everyone with MS has the exact same problems and limitations and the exact same things will happen to me that happened to them.