You are not your condition. Talk to other people that live with conditions that put them “out of the ordinary”. That said, forget about ordinary, there is no normal. There’s you-crazy, me-crazy, and everybody-else-crazy. We all have individual bodies with individual weaknesses. A couple of mine, dysthymia and bad knees, well big quads pulling on my ligaments that is. Makes it really hard to do martial arts on your knees – learn technique and focus while they’re trying to lock. The best route toward our imperfections is acceptance. It’s easy to say, but hard to establish. Though if you put yourself on a path to acceptance, you’ll find that you have nothing to “defend” anymore. Things are what they are – and of no more significance than our perception gives them. After acceptance, the best next thing is humor. Humor them, yourself, the situation – life and the big joke called the universe :) Have a good therapeutic laugh about it all.