- Use public transport
- Stay up late (as I tire very easily)
- Cut up my own food
- Open cans, jars and cartons
- Manipulate clips, buttons and zippers
- Lift anything out of the oven and off the stove
- Keep up with the handwriting speed of my peers
- Speak (when the dystonia is at its worst)
- Move easily
- Walk distances
- Negotiate uneven ground
- Balance
- Lockup and leave my house
- Live independently