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You make a very good point. I have to think about it for a while. But I think you have struck to the heart of the matter - it is what PD does that is important not so much as who it is done to. I think maybe that unfortunately the public is used to associatng old age with some sort of debilitating winding down sort of process - like Alzheimers - or even PD. It seems sort of normal to the process of aging. But when a debilitating disease - like AIDS - or PD - strikes a younger person it seems more sort of incongruous. I'm not giving my personal opinion, you realse, but trying to see through the eyes of Mr John Q Public. Like I said, I need to think this through some more. Hilary Blue (49/16) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dennis Greene wrote: > Try as we might, there is no way we can alter the fact that > young onset PD is still the exception rather than the rule. So - if we are > going to change the public perception of a PWP to just what are we going to > change it. To show a young onset PWP as the normal face of PD is even > further from the truth than the present stereotype. > > Perhaps we should be looking at increasing public awareness of PD as a > predatory, debilitating condition which changes your life at whatever age it > strikes. It is the public perception that PD is not really serious that I > believe we need to change. > > Dennis > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Dennis Greene 48/11 >