Parkinsons, stealing and gambling....related?

I asked this question a couple of weeks ago. In the answer voted #1, the person said they hoped I wasn't serious. The reason I asked the question was because I'm dead serious! A family member of mine, whom I will not define, has been stealing from me, my mother, my sister, his own kids and wife, and now my kids, even going so far as to blame my daughter for a recent theft, and blaming it all on Parkinsons. This has been his excuse for more than 20 years of lying, stealing, and gambling. I hate the asshole! He is breaking our family apart!

Hi there... Parkinsons disease is a neurological condition that affects certain parts of the brain that control movement. I just wrote a paper about it in my Neuroanatomy class...There is NO correlation with gambling and stealing. Hope this helps.

The next time he steals from someone report the theft to the police and if they ask if you have any idea who did it given them his name. Perhaps if he gets called into the police station or questioned at home he will realize that he has a problem and at least needs to quite stealing from family members.

To start off with....I have Parkinson's. I read this and thought....this guy was a thief to start off with. Or at the least, had the tendency's.
I don't believe that anyone who is honest to the core, would ever steal from anyone...medication or no. I was diagnosed two years ago and have been on medication for that amount of time. If anything, the drugs might bring out things in ones personality that might not have surfaced otherwise. But, I don't believe that it would make a truley honest person steal. I think this person is using the disease as an excuse to do what was in his heart in the first place. I'd call him on it.............