Toronto author Erin Paterson tested gene positive for Huntington's Disease in 2006. Despite the diagnosis she was determined to have a family and live a joyful life. She is a columnist for HuntingtonsDiseaseNews.com. She has also been published on TheMighty.com, Adopt4Life.com and has written for The Huntington Society of Canada (HSC). She spoke at the HSC national youth conference in 2018, and will do so again in the fall of 2019.