Today I'm going back through and highlighting all of the spots where Eli is showing symptoms of HD. It has been one of my challenges, figuring out how to sprinkle instances of it throughout, how to be consistent, how to show plausible progression.
I already worry about offending the HD community. I worry they will not like that the HD character uses illegal drugs. But I also feel like I can't worry about that too much. It's a balance. On one hand, he will be pretty much the only mainstream representation of HD, and people in the community would hope for a "positive" portrayal. On the other, he is a fictional individual, not meant to represent every HD patient ever. I'm looking forward to going to the HD support group next week and hopefully asking people about this directly to elicit actual opinions rather than predicting negative opinions.
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