Ari Maayan, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a biotech innovator and former Marine. He was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis eight years ago. He shares about the value of embracing humor when dealing with embarrassing symptoms.

If you look at my eye droops now, I’m saying that I’m getting double my money’s worth. Because you can see that I don’t just have one eye droop, I got two eye droops. And there are times when the right eye is doing a little better than the left and the left eye is completely closed. And I’ve made up a whole panel of jokes about it.

And there’s these things, these cute little things that go on with us when we’ve got this MG thing. Find something humorous about it and make it part of your shtick. Like now.