Stella Young Quotes

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy.

I was born with lots of deformities.

I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

I was born with the genetic condition called 'achondroplasia,' which I inherited from my dad: my mam is average height, and my dad is also a little person. I am the oldest of five children, and I am the only one who is a little person.

Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.

I was missing the main weight-bearing bone in both legs. And the left leg, I didn't have a full knee. It was a floating knee. I had six toes. My hands were webbed, and I also have one kidney. I don't have a full bicep on my right side. Thank God my hair didn't get ruined.

One of the common conditions on both sides of my families is diabetes.

I never had concussion issues. What I have is cervical spinal stenosis.

I was born asthmatic so came into boxing with deficiencies.

When I was in my early twenties, I spent six months bedbound with a condition called Cholinergic Urticaria that basically means I'm allergic to heat, including my own body. It was bad.

And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!

I was born with a crippled leg. I wore a corrective shoes since I was three years old and I still wear them.

My mom is part albino.

I use an electric wheelchair because I have no sense of balance, and muscle spasticity has arched my spine like a cat's, while my legs are really just for show.

I have a slight herniation above where I had surgery.

I was the first person in NYU Medical Center's history to be diagnosed with NMDAR encephalitis.

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.

I don't have cancer, I just have a tumour.

I have a mole in my eye, which is a very specific thing.

I occasionally suffer from eczema but only very mildly.