Episode notes
Do celebrities have a magic pill for Spasmodic Dysphonia, dysphonia, dystonia, or major voice disorders?
That’s the question I keep coming back to.
When you’re dealing with a voice disorder, it is easy to think celebrity money, celebrity doctors, celebrity access, and celebrity specialists must mean there is some secret fix the rest of us don’t know about.
But when you look at public figures connected to Spasmodic Dysphonia, dysphonia, dystonia, or serious voice problems — Shania Twain, Selma Blair, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Shadoe Stevens, and Scott Adams — the story is not usually “they found the magic pill.”
The story is more complicated.
They searched.
They struggled.
They tried treatments.
They adapted.
They had setbacks.
And in some cases, they had to accept a ...