Teen, 19, trolled for rare disorder which leaves her looking like four-year-old
A mum told how her 19-year-old daughter is often trolled for looking like a four-year-old as a result of her condition.
According to her family, Dannia Shabir could be the only female in the world living with chromosome translocation.
The disorder means the teenager, who is non-verbal, looks like a little girl who weighs just 17kg.
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It means her mum Aleisha Almahari, 56, and auntie Kelly Shabir, 39, are often abused for using disabled spaces.
But despite the negative trolls, her family say Dannia is happy all the time and loves travelling.
Now her mum wants to raise awareness for her daughter’s “genetic makeup”, reports Sun Online.
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She said: “That’s the way God made her. She’s easygoing, happy all the time and loves people more than toys.
“The geneticist did full genetic testing after her birth and found it was chromosome translocation in chromosome 20.
“They said there were only four reported cases globally, all of those boys and she was the first girl.
“The boys have never survived and they don’t know and still don’t know what Dannia is going to do.”
Dannia was born smaller than average with low body temperature and low blood sugar.
Her mum claims when geneticists investigated the issue, they said: “Ooh, doesn’t she look funny”, leaving her raging.
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Despite the news after her birth, Aleisha says her daughter has completely proved her wrong.
She was concerned she’d be “lifeless” as she grew, but that’s not the case with Dannia.
As she looks like a toddler, strangers often slam the family for using disabled parking bays, despite owing a blue badge.
The mum continued: “In public, people don’t know what is wrong with her – she’s severely disabled and can’t walk.
“We were removed from a flight to Morocco because of her size – it was really awful and hugely embarrassing.
“We called before and explained we had a letter from her consultant saying she can’t sit unaided in an aircraft seat and would need to sit in a lap.
“They then decided that because of her age she couldn’t sit in our lap and we needed to buy her a seat – but wouldn’t sell us a seat as she was deemed too small to sit in it.
“The captain came out and said he wasn’t happy, they unloaded our bags, got us off the plane and walked us all the way through the airport to the door.”
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Even though it’s not always smooth, Dannia loves travelling as her favourite place to be is “floating in a pool in Dubai”.
Aleisha concluded: “She does really well in the heat, better than the cold.
“We take her everywhere, she’s been to so many places – her body temperature runs a degree below ours.
“She’s been in 50 degrees before with no problem, that’s just her.
“Being in Dubai floating around in the swimming pool was her favourite experience.”
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