"It's Chyckxn!" The Unculinary Way I Made Life Palatable

When you are born with a congenital facial difference, you spend a lot of your life kicking over boxes and burning a few, too, all in the hope of proving yourself worthy of societal acceptance. The internal struggle of wanting to be “just like everyone” else is further complicated by not understanding why society makes that desire so unnecessarily complicated. At birth, genetic tests revealed that Christina did not have the common gene responsible for Treacher Collins Syndrome, and science label