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Teaching with PD

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For the teachers out there with PD, do you have challenges with speech and imbalance symptoms? Wonder if I am unintelligible or appear drunk. Fatigue is a given.

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Yes, it got really difficult to move around the classroom, writing on the board for long got messy and difficulty speaking loudly/clearly enough. Generally, hard time providing the dynamism that classroom teaching requires.

I have now finished my teaching contract and I'm investigating training for another occupation. It's a shame, because this part-time career kept me active, but at the end I felt that I wasn't delivering what the kids needed.

All the best for your journey.

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Sigh. It's a shame PD wrecks yet another career. I'm barely hanging on to mine. Good luck freefallmode!

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