Um, hello!
I’m Shift! Just made this blog to try and, I dunno, talk about, vent, some of my feelings and experiences with Huntingtons. It’s criminally unmentioned, although it’s not common so I suppose that makes sense, but it’s brutal.
For clarification, my mother has the disease and it’s been rough. And of course since it’s my mother I have a 50/50 shot of having it too. Which is uh.. fun.
If you don’t know, Huntingtons Disease is essentially an overproduction of the protein Huntington in your brain. It sorta kicks in at a certain age (age varies but is generally similar to whenever it occurred to your parent) and from then over the next 20 ish years (once again, varies) gradually breaks down and destroys your brain.
It has no cure and is 100% fatal.
This is really just a sort of introduction. See how this goes y’know. Who knows, maybe I won’t use it that much but I feel like it could be good.
If this is a subject you relate to, or want to know more about, feel free to reach out! Sometimes I feel like I can’t talk about this subject enough, so don’t feel shy, I want to talk!
