Hi ho! I ho! It’s off to court we go!

…I was questioned on the witness stand for three hours… I was tired, weaving in and out of the haziness of levodopa and the speediness of seligilene; and the risk-seeking compulsions of Mirapex. The tremors were starting, and soon they would shake me off the chair, onto the floor….
They were very kind to me, at the courthouse. They knew about Parkinson’s and how it affects me, and they treated me with the utmost respect…

…It was very, very hard for me to go to court. It took weeks. Stress is deadly when channelled by Parkinson’s...

Maybe it is not true that we can or should participate in the activities of society. Maybe it is doing no one any good for us to encourage Parkies to come out of their isolation.
Maybe isolation is tranquility we need.
Maybe trying to be part of something is what kills us.
…We demanded to be treated “just like everybody else”. How’s that for self-delusion? Just like everybody else? We are not like everybody else.
Are we “differently abled”?
Sure, but we are also really screwed up….
We are dependents, not equals.
Whose testimony will be believed, in any trial? The Parkie -vs- the Normal?
Parkinson’s changes cognition. In the brain and the nervous system and the muscles, lots of things are going wrong. Is the testimony of a Parkie as valid as the testimony of a Normal?
Am I a credible witness? Do I understand the questions? Do I understand the relationship between questions and answers? Do I understand the passage of time? Do I remember what happened? Do I see the same cause-effect patterns that they do? Is something being lost in the translation? How can you believe a brain-damaged real estate salesman when all the other witnesses are so elevated over time and space that they are never on the wrong side of history: the people who have the power to know things “beyond a reasonable doubt”.
(The above is an excerpt from Chapter 48, http://parkinsonsdance.blogspot.com/...hapter-48.html
but most of the chapter is not about PD so be careful and delete when you start to get offended.) But do not hesitate to comment, even if very critical. It was my first time ever in a courtroom, and it was not a good place to have Parkinson’s. Anyone had experiences like that? Where you are expected to be “normal” but it is very hard to do well because of the disease?)