What you went through and what you had to put up with was difficult for me to read. It took me a while to think about it — how to answer you. There’s no good answer, rather, there’s no answer at all. Is the disease you have called Tay-Sachs? Or Torsion Dystonia? No matter what the title is, the unfortunate part is that you have to go through that. I am an Ashkenazi Jew. My parents were first cousins and from Poland. Not a great combo. But I came out unscathed.

As to the horrible discourse and verbal abuse, I can’t even imagine why it’s necessary. I learned a while back to be very, very careful how I string words together out in public — whether written or verbal. I had an unpleasant comment I made on someone's article here. The gist of it was that all Republicans who like Trump are stupid (not in the exact words. But that was the idea.) I always refrain from responding to such idiotic rhetoric. I commented that he doesn’t know me and why the blanket statement? That’s all. Another reader must have not liked what I said and she literally attacked me with vicious words. I deleted her. That’s all. Now, I stay in my lane, say what I have to say in the most democratic way, without leaning left or right.

There’re a lot of crazies out there, and the Covid seems to entice the maggots to crawl out from under the rocks. So, as unpleasant as it is, try to delete them from your memory best that you can and move on. They win if you let them enter into your sphere. Move on. There’re lots of nice people out there who deserve your goodness.