Julia is a true inspiration to all of us. She recounts positive and negative experiences about how essential tremor (ET) has affected her in high school, college, with friends, with her volleyball teammates, and with her family. In a narrative style, Julia reveals deep personal stories about cognitive deficiencies by using personal experiences to explain her struggles and triumphs with ET and how ET affects her on a daily basis. She also explains that she was born with ET and breaks the narrative into how she struggles and triumphs in high school, college, and her experience with her volleyball teams. She is brave when she tells about her junior year of high school and the downfall of her academic performance. She describes challenges she has had just maintaining grips on objects, and how her tremors make normal stresses, emotional situations, or general nervousness worse for her than for people without tremors. She explains the accommodations she received in school to allow for the difficulties she has in tasks like using a computer, gripping a pencil or a pen to handwrite. Some of her professors understand her disability; but most professors lack understanding of essential tremor. She mentions receiving C’s on tests and A’s on other assignments before concluding the narrative by reliving an experience she had with her volleyball teammates  watching the movie Love and Other Drugs. She ends the article on a happy notes when she states, “I’m hoping that in being open with others and educating on a daily basis, that I can raise awareness step-by-step for my fellow ETers.”