Being strong and while dealing with NF can be a difficult thing. I believe that everyone comes to the table with a different perspective. What seems like a small problem to me, may seem like an impossible task to someone else. What if you woke up tomorrow and no longer had NF? What if all the tumors were gone, the pain was gone, everything? What kind of person would you become? Would you still be shy? Would you then feel that you could finally live your life? If you became one of the “beautiful” people would you look down on everyone or would you dare to stand out? People who suddenly change their looks, weight loss, or plastic sugery, etc, sometimes forget where they have been. Your looks are not the measure of who you are.