Post 533 It is your, it is always your choice. choice 4 Oct 2019
RoyceNewton
t is always your choice. Do "You" remember back in the day when "YOU went out on a Friday night, then Saturday night. Yes, I remember those days long ago. It was your choice as to how tight a pair of jeans "YOU" wore, how plunging that neckline should be. If "YOU should react to the bloke with that corny pickup attempt, if that cute girl deserved a drink and a dance. It was always your choice, as it is now. "YOU" could swing for the fence, suggestively flirt or go home alone, having danced and drunk the night away with your friends.
It was your choice, was it not? We all have ms of some type, and it is our choice as to how we react to it. That person at the store looks at "YOU" strangely when "YOU" ask for help, when "YOU ride on the scoter when shopping. It is always your choice as to how "YOU" react. They never warn "YOU" about the strange looks the unkind statements people make. "YOU" will get them. People generally are strange, "YOU" decide if "you would use a different word. They do not know me, and I do not know them. I will likely never see them again and they me. If they doknow me, I have dropped enough supposedly off-hand comments that they know there is something wrong with me. "Where is the Toilet\Bathroomn I can not see the sign" is a good one. Point to the glasses around your neck and comment about they rarely seem to help.
I understand that it will take "YOU a little while to learn to react to your benefit, but perhaps "YOU" should take some time and think about it. Before "YOU" get hot under the collar and upset, think how can I make this situation work to my advantage? "YOU" park in an accessible parking spot and somebody comments, loud enough, so they hear, say how upset "YOU" are that people use those spots, drop that "YOU" have ms and really need that spot.
ms is a long term condition. We all will have it for a very long time. Learn how to adjust events to your advantage. There is no need for the world to see that "YOU" are at the mercy of your ms. Let them see control, YOUR control. "YOU" can handle this, cope with it, and when "YOU" can not do not let them see it. Of course, when they do see it play any situation up to your advantage, always your advantage. Do not allow yourself be seeen as a weak pitiful victim, unless that is what "YOU" want.
Royce (the ms writer)
act, play this illness to your advantage, always be smart
