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                        Carolyn - first and foremost, you have no problems - what we deal with is genetic.  The "problems" that you allude to are with the unsupportive people  who surround you.  After 27 years, I would assume that you have  managed to have come to some terms with your condition.  I've dealt with mine for 22 years, and if it affects a relationship,  then it ceases to be a disease.