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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.
"The Y chromosome is genetic. The odds are very good that if you are male then your father was too." -Internet Commenter
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.
Man, I've been through so many drugs I've almost become a Christian.
"In the absence of the ability to establish the attribute of truth they tried to establish the noble attributes."
No, soldiers die because they bleed too much.
"In the absence of the ability to establish the attribute of truth they tried to establish the noble attributes."
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.
Mr. Taucross, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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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.
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 /.
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
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?
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.
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
Why isn't there an "insensitive" mod point?
Would that be +1 or -1 ?
No, she's Maggie Simpson.