If you have eye problems tell someone it is like putting mayonnaise on your glass lens and then smearing them. If you have heavy legs tell them that it is like you have 100 pound weights tied to your ankles. I also use a handicap sticker and sometimes people will stare at me,my neuro told me to tell them "I will trade the handicap sticker anytime for a cure for my MS." Hope these help a little bit.

The "Spoon Theory" has to do with your energy reserves. The reserves are "counted" in spoons. If you're resting for an event coming up, then you're "saving your spoons". When you feel your energy getting low, then you're running out of spoons. Get it?? :)

I say my body is having a civil with it's self, and I'm loosing

I tell them PPMS is like dying very very slowly. Most people die all at once, so they never have a chance to get used to it. By the time the lights go off for me, I'll have had years to warm up to it. Also, I get a tag that lets my wife park close to the store when it rains. Best disease ever.

I don't use just one explanation, because it depends on whom I'm speaking. The electrical wiring is the easiest and the one I mostly use. However, for those "genius" know-it-all people... I feel the need to explain it in scientific terms. Mostly, to let them know that I'm very certain of my disease. Yes, I've heard of bee stings. Yes, I'm aware that there are natural treatments.... and on and on and on. It gets tiring. My Mom(has MS and my little sister, too) explains it like this: Remember how you feel when you have the flu. The aches and pain and fatigue. Well, that's how us MSers feel all the time. Our bodies are always fighting a flu that isn't there. And, unlike you, we can't get over our "flu!" That's mom's way of explaining it. For me, it depends on the one inquiring, though.