Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XV

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MS Brain Fog

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Ann Romney

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Everything I Know Is Ridiculous - Idiom Edition

id·i·om - NOUN an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.

5) Pot calling the kettle black. 
Definition: A hypocritical statement. 
Example: NASA astronauts are easy. Just because it's hypocritical doesn't mean it's not true.
4) Won't touch something with a 10-foot pole.
Definition: To find something unappealing and not want to associate with it 
Example: "I'm not touching QAnon with a 10-foot pole."
3) Traded hair for teeth
Definition: Made a bad trade e.g. traded something which grows back for something permanent. 
Example: "Broke up with my college boyfriend. I traded hair for teeth on that one."
2) Thick as thieves 
Definition: In the 18th century, 'thick' meant being closely allied with and thieves were thought of as conspiratorial individuals. 
Example: Meghan Markle and I. We're thick as thieves. Her and Kate Middleton, not as much.
1) Piece of cake

Definition: To be very easily accomplished or said ironically, about something that is extremely difficult to achieve. 
Example: "Climbing Everest? Piece of cake."

Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XIV

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4) What's it like being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis? The easiest, and arguably, best way, to describe this "snowflake disease" is simply that it's suuuper weird.
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2) Having MS is like being drunk all the time but without touching an iota of alcohol. It comes along with all the embarrassing consequences of drunkenness, like stumbling, falling, and passing gas in public places.
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Southpaw

Approximately 10% of the world's population are southpaws. We don't talk about in front of strangers but my own father leans to the left. We'll never know the true percent of lefties because many were forced to change handedness during childhood by teachers, parents, or the Aryan Society for Right Handed World Domination (you didn't hear it from me).

While historically, we typically enjoy shunning and/or ridiculing our minorities, according to Chris McManus, this tiny percentage has managed to change how lefties are socially viewed due to their production of an extraordinary number of high achievers.

The magnitude of famous lefties is truly outstanding considering there's no explanation for why people are left handed.

Everything I Know Is Ridiculous - Part XVIII

5) Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American comedy-drama war film staring Robin Williams as a radio DJ on Armed Forces Radio Service with a huge popularity among the troops, while infuriating his superiors.

4) Here's some well-deserved encouragement, you magnificent mother fucker. 

3) Parallel lines have so much in common. It's a shame they'll never meet.

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Everything I Know Is Ridiculous - Part XVII

5) Light exists as both a particle and a wave. This dichotomy explains how we can live in a universe with simultaneously freewill and predestination.
4) I think I had this teacher.

3) At a whopping 29 letters, Floccinaucinihilipilifica

has earned the unofficial title of the longest non-technical word in the English language. However, its meaning is quite simple: the act or habit of estimating something as worthless. (Like say this word itself?)
2) I remember this pie! It was apple.

1) What are the top traits of truly remarkable people? If you demonstrate these following characteristics, like adaptability, curiosity, and open mindedness, in addition to being a night owl, you might just be a true intellectual giant.

Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XIII

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Don't forgot sweating, sleeping, and making everyone around you uncomfortable, all at once, like magic!

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1) I miss my boring life. I'd give anything to get it back.  

Multiple Sclerosis and Me: 5 Things I've learned about MS - Part XII

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4) With multiple sclerosis, often, I find myself reminiscing about simpler times and wonder if one day, these will be my simple times I'm reminiscing about like a strange loop of a larger uncomplicated era that I don't even realize or appreciate for it's simplicity.

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