When I was first diagnosed ten years ago I was just 29, the same age as the Back to the Future star. The world was shocked when he revealed his news in 1998, admitting that he’d been diagnosed seven years earlier. Ironically, when I was 29, I was working as a web designer for the charity Parkinson’s UK. As an experiment, some of my colleagues were given bits of tech that simulated the condition including a glove that makes your hand shake and a corset that makes your chest seize up. Then there was me, not with a tremor yet, but with a stiff hand that was making it increasingly hard to do the detailed pixel work that my job required.
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