'My hangover twitch turned out to be an early sign of Parkinson's disease - I was only 23'
But he's not letting his condition get in the way of his life.
"It gets me out of the house it gives me something to look forward to. Before I joined the gym I could hardly walk - it's given me a bit of mobility back.Because of his balance issues, he doesn't do much standing up - using resistance machines and sitting down to do weights instead."When people realise I've got it, they're quite shocked - that's why I do a lot of work to explain that you don't have to be elderly or have to shake to have it," he said.
"But over time, I've told them. They're not the kinds of people who would mollycoddle me - they just get over it."He estimates that he's now 80 per cent covered in ink - from his ankles to his ears.He says that most people don't realise that he has the condition but that his tattoos advertise the fact"Tattoos and the gym are better than medication. They give me something to look forward to and I won't let my condition beat me.
A quarter said they'd been told that they were "too young" to have it, while nearly 60 per cent said they'd cancelled social situations due to embarrassment over their symptoms.
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