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    SCI Superstar: Kristin Duquette

    A fierce new human rights grad diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy FSHD when she was just 9 years old, learn all about the awesome story of American Paralympic Swimmer Kristin Duquette on SPINALpedia, who at only 22 years has done some amazing stuff, from interviewing Kofi Annan in South Africa to founding A Day in a Wheelchair and becoming a resident blogger for The Huffington Post.

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    Can you hide disability with tight jeans and makeup? She did

     “If everybody’s not a beauty, then nobody is.” – Andy Warhol.    When Laura Maffei was diagnosed with progressive Muscular Dystrophy as a young teen (the nerve disease that the Jerry Lewis telethon supports), she was told by her parents to hide her new condition, to mask the growing-in-strength symptoms – the encumbered gait, the inability to hold in her gut – for as long as she could because discrimination based on disability is one of the worst kinds of discrimination you can experience. And it is. Comments I can tell you from my own experience, from going from a healthy 14 year old blonde white girl to a very…