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S1 Ep7: My Parents Abandoned Me Because Of My Face: My Life With Treacher Collins Syndrome

Extraordinary Lives

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The Importance of a Normal Face

In year 10 of high school my friends started having these parties and I knew they existed. And as the celebration stopped, I stopped looking at my face. There were times I would push my eyes up and believe if I had a normal face, like everybody else, I wouldn't be going through all these shit things that were happening to me. So got a new outfit for this party. I'm terrified of the hairdresser so I gave myself this wonky ball cut by yourself. Inspired by Nick Carter, David Beckham, you know, back in the day. It was terrible. That was the only thing that he could do to try and sort his hair outsort of thing.

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