Stiff Person is lame.

THE DESIGNATION "STIFF PERSON" IS SO CONTRIVED IT RINGS CRACKED. 

THE ORIGINAL "STIFF MAN" EVOKES AN IMAGE WHICH SUGGESTS WHAT THE MALADY IS LIKE. I DID NOT DESCRIBE MYSELF AS STIFF BUT AS VIRTUALLY PARALYZED, ABLE TO MOVE AND STAND ONLY A LITTLE USUALLY AND SOMETIMES NOT ABLE TO MOVE AT ALL. 

I CAN LAY THERE AND I FEEL ALRIGHT BUT THE MOMENT I START TO MOVE I CAN FEEL SOMETHING IS WRONG AND I SHOULD RESUME A FLAT POSITION. 

THE VALUE IN THE "STIFF PERSON SYNDROME" IS IN ITS CATALOGING OF MANY SYMPTOMS AND THE "STIFF" RATHER THAN "COLLAPSED OR CONVULSED" I USE TO DESCRIBE THE SYMPTOMS I AM DISABLED BY.

I COULD REASSESS MY SYMPTOMS AS MUSCLES FIRE OR CONTRACT AND THEY WILL NOT RELAX AND FIRE AGAIN.

 I HAVE REPEATEDLY DESCRIBED HOW MY JOINTS ARE SPASMED, LOCKED AND IMPROPERLY ALIGNED. 

THE "STIFF PERSON SYNDROME" IS REFERENCED AS DISLOCATING JOINTS AND CAUSING HYPERLORDOSIS WHICH I REFERRED TO AS "SWAY BACK".

MANY OF THE SYMPTOMS WHICH I HAVE REPEATEDLY LINKED TO CHILDHOOD BEATING AND "THROWING DOWN" AND TO MY HEELS BEING EASILY PUSHED UP WHICH CAUSES A LEG COLLAPSE AND OTHER SYMPTOMS I HAVE SEEN AS THE SYMPTOMS OF 

SHELL SHOCK LIFE

SWAYBACK IS A COMMON SYMPTOM OF SHELL SHOCK.

 I HAVE AN ADVERSE OUTCOME WHEN I AM BULLIED OR INTIMIDATED OR ATTACKED AND THE "STIFF PERSON SYNDROME" LITERATURE REFERENCES THAT FEAR AND EMOTIONAL TRAUMA EXACERBATE THE EFFECTS CAN TRIGGER EPISODES OF "STIFF PERSON SYNDROME".