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Doctors Baffled, Intrigued By Girl Who Doesn't Age
phyrebyrd writes "Brooke Greenberg is the size of an infant, with the mental capacity of a toddler. She turned 16 in January. Brooke hasn't aged in the conventional sense. Dr. Richard Walker of the University of South Florida College of Medicine, in Tampa, says Brooke's body is not developing as a coordinated unit, but as independent parts that are out of sync. She has never been diagnosed with any known genetic syndrome or chromosomal abnormality that would help explain why. Brooke's hair and her nails are the only two things that grow, Howard said. 'She has pajamas and outfits that are 10 or 12 years old,' he said."
Oh, grow up!
GOVERNMENT WARNING: (1) According to the Surgeon general, women should not drink from the fountain of youth during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects.
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Her body is not developing as a co-ordinated unit because her environment (humanity) isn't either. These kind of deviations within nature will continue to become more apparent as humans evolve. As long as we continue to grow egoistically, separated from one another, we will be as cancer cells rather than living tissue - working for the benefit of ourselves rather than each other. We are all complicit in her abnormality.
"In the absence of the ability to establish the attribute of truth they tried to establish the noble attributes."
It's never lupus
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And Christians everywhere come up with a new excuse for Noah being 500 years old.
I bet they match the Star Wars sheets on your bed too.
Except for the one time where it was lupus.
High school girls stay the same age as well. Giggity giggity.
I'd rather you rationally disagree than irrationally agree.
She has pajamas and outfits that are 10 or 12 years old,' he said.
That's nothing, I work in an office with some programmers who haven't changed their outfits in over twenty years.
What if we have it backwards?
What if she is the first person not to have the disease we all have and that she is aging but really really slow?
It's like I've been saying- you kids are going _way_ too fast!
Now, get off my lawn!
Except that you might get it named after
Sadly, they named my condition Gigantus Penis Maximus Syndrome and left my name right out of it.
Wow, this article is not what I expected in the slightest. Here I was thinking it was some hot 21-year-old girl who was gonna look 21 the rest of her life, and I was gonna show up here and say "Some guy is gonna be a super lucky husband!" But, uh...er... anyway, moving right along.
I will too.
I'll be the 112 year old guy with the body of a 43 year old in the corner. Come say Hi!
Trolling is a art,
Has anyone considered that she might just be moving very close to the speed of light?
If she wants to look older she should do what every other 16 year old does:
Learn to smoke.
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So she's Wolverine?
Really? Lou Gehrig was a doctor? wow, the things you learn on /.
I don't think any show will live a thousand years. Except for maybe Law and Order or The Simpsons.
Yeah. In several hundred years she'll hit puberty. Then within a few weeks she'll develop blue-green lesions that will cover her body. She'll turn grup, meaning she'll become violent and full of rage, and then die. I saw it on TV.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
perhaps a large conglomerate could claim intellectual property on this mutation, and mass produce cute little baby pets that never grow up and become surly teenagers. perhaps you could even clone yourself, and have a little pet baby you to waddle around in diapers and make cute cooing noises. when the novelty wears off and they become a hassle, just leave them by the side of the road, like people always do with golden retriever puppies at the end of the summer and such*
*this post brought to you in an attempt to offend every shred of ethics you have
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
So in two years she'll be 18...But still look like shes 3. Uh oh, better watch out for pedo bear.
Stop arguing with yourself AC
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Gigantic PMS?
i would say that this girl, uh, young woman, has an incredibly rare, unique mutation: insensitivity to human growth hormone. it would explain all of her symptoms
Was it Wilson's story about his tennis elbow that jarred you to that conclusion?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Damn, she's going to be at a tremendous disadvantage come the Gathering.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
what? and stunt her growth?
Maybe she already has. As I was repeatedly told in my youth, smoking stunts your growth.
Momentarily, the need for the construction of new light will no longer exist.
She can still be a technical or political blogger or head of the Democratic party and no one would be able to tell the difference. But still true, hardly a 'normal' life.
Not even if you paste a picture of an adult's face over hers?
Yes. What family and doctors have believed to be just baby talk is in fact a Canadian accent with a liberal sprinkling of 'bub's.
(scowl... limp... vicodin chomp)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
A child who never grows up. Haven't we had enough stories about Michael Jackson?
Why isn't there an "insensitive" mod point?
Would that be +1 or -1 ?
No, she's Maggie Simpson.
At least when they come round to needing it it'll still fit.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."