There are many situations that we have to adjust to as our Parkinson's wends it way through us physically, and I, like the rest of you, deal with them as they emerge and do so to the best of my ability.

What I cannot bear is the over solicitous approaches from friends and acquaintances, especially in a social situation. It is downright unnerving to enter a room and have people scurrying about to get me a chair, a drink, a stuffed mushroom, etc. Then one by one they "visit" me at my assigned (by them) location, engage in some perfunctory small talk, and then walk away. I sit haplessly balancing everything they have bombarded me with, looking like that token elderly lady you see invited to parties out of respect and stashed in a spot away from of the social interaction. I have Parkinson's, not leprosy. I have not lost my mind, at least not yet. I still have ideas, reactions, contributions, etc.

I do not know how to handle this. How do you do it?

AnnT2