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

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How to Introduce Yourself as John O'Lancaster

Collins syndrome is something that you're born with and affects your face. For me, I don't have any cheek bones, so that's why my eyes appear the way they do. But it means I am hard of hearing, so I do wear a hearing aid. My jaw is underdeveloped. So, for me, that just means a snorily allowed. Some require help with their breathing, so they'll have a trache,. some many defeating tube, some require a lot of surgeries just to be able to get by in life. Whereas all my surgeries were more around my hearing. And it just affects people's faces in different ways.

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