I remember when I was first diagnosed I tried to be in contact with as many people with MS as I could. I thik it was througha program with Avonex that had some discussion forums or offers for pen pals or something. Who kows I may be completley out of my mind in tinking that! Anyway, I kep a lot of those email from back and forth. I was an RN so detail inciteful writing was my job. Years later I went back and revisited some of those emails. There is no way I could ever be able to think and write like that. I don't know if I lose it by not using it or what. But it's gone. But I have grand kids now and they don't need long inciteful letters to accept me!

Me too, is all I can say. I have slight dyslexia now, not too bad. But my eye-hand coordination problem has been with me all my life, and is not actually worse now than when I was a child. I could not play any sports that took eye-hand coordination, and of course was accused of being anti-social. I could dance very well, and run, but no basketball, croquet, badminton, tennis, golf, archery. Bowling a "D" in college, Archery a "D"....and nasty looks from instructors who thought I was not trying. Always "A" in dance. Would have been an "A" in running if there was track for girls back then.

One really strong cognitive deficit from early years is in playing board or card games. I am ashamed that my grandchildren cannot teach me chess. I am doing pretty well with simple card games, but Bridge has always and always give me a headache, once of the very few sources of headache for me. Unfortunately my first husband and my mother were both bridge champs. I can handle the cards and chess pieces OK but cannot think the thoughts well.