the tremor unlikely Andrew Churchyard my dad has hd and i asked th school counselor if there was anyone else that has a parent with hd but she said that i was the only one! i have no idea what to tell my friends because they don't know about my dad. what should i do?! Hi Regan, I'm sorry this answer has taken a long time but I have been away. I think you could start by telling your friends that your Dad is not well, and that he has an illness that affects his brain, which causes parts of his body and his mind not to work properly. You would need to say that there is no cure for the illness and that it gets worse slowly, but that some of the symptoms can be treated with medications to keep him as good as possible. You can say that he will need a lot of looking after, from both the family and from special carers that can come and help him at home. If you feel confident you can tell them it is a genetic illness, caused by a mistake in one gene, which he would have got from one of his parents. Two other things you can do are to give your friends the website address for OurHDSpace and then they can look up the information they want to on that. Also you can contact the HD Association in the state where you live (the phone numbers are