The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy.
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The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
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That’s where it starts and sometimes finishes. My parents never told me I was small, so I never knew any better. They had to sign for me to play football and basketball, but they never said, “No, you can’t. You’re too small.” I’m not the only one who has proved little people can get along in a big world. There are other little people out there who are doctors, lawyers, school teachers, electronics engineers.
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“I have a feeling that we have been placed on this earth for a special reason and although I have not fulfilled all my missions, I am trying.”
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“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.”
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“Try being my size and going into a public restroom.”
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“We are your brothers, your daughters, your friends. We just happened to have been wrapped in a smaller package.”
“Try being my size and going into a public restroom.”
What do you mean, kid? I’m 38.