Luke Grindlay, 23, was diagnosed with HSD in primary school when teachers noticed he struggled to use pens and cutlery.<\/p>\n
He hasn’t sought treatment, which he says is probably down to “imposter syndrome”, fuelled by a lack of information on HSD.<\/p>\n
“If you go online to research this, there’s nothing there\u2026 I’m going through a lot of pain, but because I can’t find anything about it, it’s almost like I’m making too much of it.”<\/p>\n
The unpredictable nature of how HSD can impact me means I relate to this idea of imposter syndrome. Sometimes I can run long distances without too much pain, while other times a shopping trip can tire me out. <\/p>\n
Luke works in golf and his role can require a lot of waiting around on courses, which can be painful. However, he says: “It’s hard for me to tell people, because not many people know about the condition.”<\/p>\n
Luke finds the impacts hitting “harder” as he gets older. <\/p>\n
Vivienne says her social life and work has been impacted. “I used to work as a massage therapist in work places, but I couldn’t stand for long and I would get really tired.”<\/p>\n
She changed job, and now works as a massage therapist for people living with dementia, which is less physically demanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Grindlay, 23, was diagnosed with HSD in primary school when teachers noticed he struggled to use pens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-752022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}