Sara Geurts was just 10 when she was diagnosed with Dermatosparaxis Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (dEDS).
dEDS is a disorder that affects the connective tissues, and is caused by a defect in collagen which results in saggy, wrinkled skin, amongst other symptoms.
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For Sara, her younger days consisted of her feeling ashamed of her skin, even taking the effort to hide it.
“I’ll start out by saying I was not always comfortable or accepting of my disorder,” she said in a self-authored post on The Mighty.
“In high school, I just tried to cover it up. I didn’t want anyone to ask me questions. As I got older, it just kind of started to show more and more,” she added, speaking to The Sun. Read more…
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