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The real Benjamin Button? Set to air on TLC on August 19, 40-Year-Old Child: A New Case will delve into the medical mystery behind the unknown syndrome, which affects just a handful of people in the world |
Eight-year-old Gabby Williams (pictured) from Billings, Montana, whose body resembles that of a toddler, and whose condition has left her blind and unable to speak |
Set to air on TLC on August 19, 40-Year-Old Child: A New Case will delve into the medical mystery behind the unknown syndrome, which affects just a handful of people in the world.
Side effects: While sufferers have normal chromosomes, they all have various cognitive deficiencies, like blindness, deafness, or the inability to walk or eat on their own |
While sufferers have normal chromosomes, they all have various cognitive deficiencies.
The show will star, among others, eight-year-old Gabby Williams, from Billings, Montana, whose body resembles that of a toddler, and whose condition has left her blind and unable to speak.
One of the other Benjamin Button cases on the one-hour special is a man from Florida with the body of a ten-year-old, despite being 29 years old |
One of the other cases is a man from Florida with the body of a ten-year-old, despite being 29 years old.
The other is a 31-year-old woman from Brazil who still has the appearance of a toddler.
Sufferers from the disorder. which resembles the one suffered by Brad Pitt's character in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, age just one year for every four years other humans age.
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