Pd is a weird disease...I think just the word "Parkinsons" translates to some people as helpless

Asking for help, and accepting help when needed/offered is not an easy thing to do..I want to hold on to my independence, with claw marks if necessary

People offer to help, and some times its comical, because they dont know how to help you..They'll hold a door open for you, and then stand on the wrong side of the door, so that it's a guarenteed freeze when I reach the threshhold..Then when they see you frozen in place the say "let me take your arm"....They dont understand that doing that does not intiate movement, not for me anyway.. For me it intiates, Hello floor!! Then when I tell them to put ther foot in front of mine like they're gonna trip me, and they look at me like Im crazy..So they do it in a postion like they are ready to catch me when they dont understand how Im not gonna trip over their foot and fall..Then without trying to be rude, I have to stutter out trying to explain the unexplainable, while searching for words to attempt to explain the unexplainable

Then when my meds kick in they come out in my boat with me, and Im so active and into working that they get in my way, and then they have this dumbfounded look of disbelief and inadequacy on their face How do ya like me now??