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Shayla Lawson
Apr 16, 2022
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I’m Shayla Lawson and I’m sick. I always tell my friends I do a great cosplay of a healthy person but, a couple months ago, that stopped being possible. I’ve always struggled with strange and undiagnosed health issues. But, one morning in October, I woke up to my eye starting to fall out. Two weeks later, I was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Eve…

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