Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

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

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.

I have never had feeling in my toes. My uncle, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, once told me in confidence he had the same syndrome, leading me to believe it is genetic.

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.

I haven't felt my toes on my foot on the right side for many years, and my fingers are numb all the time every day.

The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.

In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

I was born with six fingers on each hand.

My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.

I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.

Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism.

When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

I can't really walk well. The muscles don't get the electronic signals from my brain, not that there's anything wrong with the muscles themselves. It's just my brain.

Reich Committee for the Registration of Serious Hereditary and Congenital Illnesses

Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring

I have two children of my own; I can't imagine anything more horrific than to have a child suffering with EB.

I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.

In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.