Scott McCormack: Responding to fearful questions about my myasthenia gravis
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Scott McCormack, who lives in California, was diagnosed in 2016. He shares the anxious reactions he gets when he reveals his myasthenia gravis diagnosis, and how he responds.
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When somebody asks what’s wrong and I tell them, “myasthenia gravis,” the overwhelming response is, “What?”
They’ve never heard of it before. And neither had I before I contracted it.
I would say the strangest or most interesting response was a few people wanted to know if it was contagious. As they were asking that, they took a step backward. But then I assured them that, “No, it’s not contagious. It’s just something my body’s doing to me. It won’t do it to anybody else.”
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