Different from the freak show performers of the past? In my opinion, there is little difference. After all, if you have an inescapable and rare condition, you might need money, and you might as well benefit financially from the public's fascination in the bizarre. We can safely assume these were for financial reasons. What they all did choose, however, was to publicize their situations on television. They either have congenital differences or they developed them later, to everyone's horror. One is they aren't the way they are by choice. These people have dramatically different conditions, but there are a couple of similar veins that run through their stories. Thanks mainly to watching TLC, I have been gob-smacked by some truly astounding people, including the 1,000 pound woman, the giant tumor man, the transgender teenager, the hoarders, the, the dwarf families, and the lady who can't stop eating mattress stuffing. I have to say, that particular tragedy was a new one on me. Shauna Rae's condition was caused by chemotherapy drugs when she was an infant. So, here we have another charming woman who happens to have a very strange condition: she is 22 but looks and sounds like an 8 year old.
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