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When your child receives an ultra-rare disease diagnosis

My daughter was just diagnosed with a condition so rare there are only 200 known cases worldwide and I keep oscillating between feeling like we're part of some exclusive terrible club and completely alone in the universe.

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The simultaneous experience of being both uniquely isolated and connected to an impossibly small community creates a disorienting sense of belonging nowhere and everywhere at once.

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“Where Are You with Rare and orphan conditions?”

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