Marianne studied Public Health Care at Maastricht University and recently graduated as postmaster remedial educationalist/psychologist. She works as a child and adolescent psychologist near Rotterdam. For the Dutch Neurofibromatasis Association she wrote ’Dave and Brave’ (2012) for children and ‘Daisy, thats a long story’ (2017) for adolescents and young adults. Marianne has NF1 herself and she thinks it is important to have clear, straightforward infomation about NF for patients and their relatives.