Raising awareness

As I was getting ready for work this morning, I was thinking about raising awareness about (MCI) mild cognitive impairment and other memory impairments. I was questioning why I am sometimes struggling with this. Is it because I am afraid that if someone knows about my diagnosis, they will treat me differently? In some ways, I am still the same person, except that my brain doesn't function like it used to. My brain doesn’t work like most people my age.

For me I think that since being diagnosed, I have wanted to control who knows about my diagnosis. There are times when I can spend time with someone and they don't need to know. As a relationship grows then I will be able to figure out if I need to let them about my MCI diagnosis. I feel very strongly that this needs to be MY CHOICE and no one else's.