"these patients always told me that I brightened their day with my kind heart and talkative personality which came out over time." This is so real. I just got through publishing a story saying how we never know how we brighten someone's day! What a great story Carol. Thanks for sharing your story, as well as you and Jonathan's story - another one of my favorite Medium writers. You are so right about our stupid misconceptions that society has. I hope enlightenment through stories like this will help change things. :-)