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An uncertain explanation does not make an experience imaginary, but defending what happened should not require me to defend every story I build around it.
Put two hypothetical sentences beside each other: I felt worse after something changed, and the change made me worse. The first describes a sequence. The second supplies a cause. I can understand how quickly someone living with an unpredictable body might move from one to the other. The word because is small, useful and remarkably good at entering a conversation without showing identification.
I live with Parkinson's. I write and speak about living inside it. That gives me something worth bringing to a conversation, but I want to be careful about exactly what that something is. I can describe my experience, explain its consequences and say what matters to me. None of those abilities guarantees that the explanation I attach to an experience is correct. I do not want to surrender my authority over my life. I want to stop asking that authority to do a job it cannot do alone.