Famous people with Parkinson's Disease :

http://************/parkinsons.disease/famous.people.htm

Hey, there are a lot of "meanies" (to put it mildly) on that list - Hitler, Franco, Mao...kind of makes you wonder... could I have been a talented dictator by virtue of my PD?
I certainly have mood swings I never had before and find myself telling people off in situations that would have never bothered me before, or the exact opposite, keeping my mouth shut to avoid conflict when faced with flagrant illwill.

We had a thread on the old BT1 about Hitler's PD being the cause of his madness, a theory subscribed by Dr. Lieberman in a documentary film about this issue Hitler's PD. Who knows...

Yes, there are a lot of "meanies" listed there. Also a lot of actor/actress on the list.
Just think, I could have been an actor. Notice most of the people listed were in high stress occupations.

GregD

Besides the "mean" people, there are a great deal of creative types on there...actors, writers, poets, and some athletes...wonder why that is? Personally, I've been an athlete, actor, and writer as well. And okay, sometimes I've been mean too, but not THAT mean...

Todd
PDTalks.com

What I wonder is, why am I not on the list of famous people!?

You must be too normal - are you one of those level headed types?

This kind of makes me wonder about agonists causing obsessive behaviors. Many of these people didn't have agonists available. Seems like being obsessive, driven, goes with the Parkinson Personality? the illness itself?

paula

Not too normal - I am a structural engineer that would rather be an architect, and imagine and invent than use numbers. And I'm about as level headed as a see-saw.

OCD is definitely on my watch list - I switched to Mirapex a few months ago.

My wife would say that my only majorly obsessive behavior is this forum!