Trying to Cure the Incurable

Recently my mom told me something I had never heard before. Apparently, I started showing signs of excessive sweating through my palms when I was six months old. Six months. I was not even a full year into being a person, and my body had already decided that normal was overrated. About 385 million people in the world have this condition, roughly 5% of the global population. And yet almost nobody understands it. I have hyperhidrosis. If you are not familiar with the word, it means my hands, feet, sweat far more than they should. The kind where your phone screen stops responding because it thinks a small lake is trying to operate it. The kind where your steering wheel slowly slips out of your grip. Paper goes limp in your hands. Handshakes become a negotiation you have with yourself every single time. I do not even want to get into summers yet. But the part that really gets you is the thing nobody sees. You are about to shake someone's hand and your brain goes, "Your palms are wet right…