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\index{Mental health!movement disorders|(}
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\begin{ally}
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Not all of it was your balance. Some of it was an apology.
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\end{ally}
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Yes. Someone with a movement disorder who pretends it isn't there is, in some ineffable way, sadder than someone who at least makes some public acknowledgment that, yes, this is happening. The cane helped. People would see me shaking my head, see me shaky on my feet, and then see the cane and know, ``Ah yes, \emph{this} is happening.''
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Yes. Someone with a movement disorder who pretends it isn't there is, in some ineffable way, sadder than someone who at least makes some public acknowledgment that, yes, this is happening. The cane helped. People would see me shaking my head, see me shaky on my feet, and then see the cane and know, ``Ah yes, \emph{this} is happening.''\index{Thisness}
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\begin{ally}
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You happened to pass by one of the attendees from the data panel shortly after, and overheard him telling his friend, ``That was a really cool panel, but I think he had Parkinson's or something. Every time he would get more interested in what he was talking about, it would get worse.''
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\end{ally}
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\index{Journal entries}
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\emph{March 10, 2018}
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\begin{leftcolumn}
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I just learned the word for it shortly after, the name. And by naming a thing, hoped to gain some sort of power over it.
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\index{Writing!samples!fiction|(}
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\begin{quotation}
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\noindent Alv pinned his ears back against his head as he stomped down the length of the block. His boots were too much for the drizzle that the weather offered, but it was that or his threadbare sneakers, and some tiny part of his mind had done the calculation without the rest of him knowing, and he'd tugged the heavy things on for the walk.
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\end{quotation}
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``Would that my soul were that calm,'' he mumbled to the bare street at last and levered himself up creakily, climbing the rest of the stairs to head inside.
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\end{quotation}
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\index{Writing!samples!fiction|)}
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\begin{ally}
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Write what you know. Write about the way pacing slowly moved from its status as nervous habit to a necessity, to an ache. Write about how there was no relief in walking, just a drive, an itch you could never scratch but were nonetheless required to try. Write, and cast those words upon something else, upon someone else, so that you can look on them and say, ``Ah yes, \textbf{this} is happening.''
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Write what you know. Write about the way pacing slowly moved from its status as nervous habit to a necessity, to an ache. Write about how there was no relief in walking, just a drive, an itch you could never scratch but were nonetheless required to try. Write, and cast those words upon something else, upon someone else, so that you can look on them and say, ``Ah yes, \textbf{this} is happening.''\index{Thisness}
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\end{ally}
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\begin{ally}
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Write what you know but don't yet understand.
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\begin{ally}
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And then, Thanksgiving.
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\end{ally}
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Yes. Thanksgiving, and my dad visiting.
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Yes. Thanksgiving, and my dad visiting.\index{Dad}
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\begin{ally}
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He had seen the tic before, at least.
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