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Interview with Kylie 01
 
When did you find out you had Turner's?
 

All images appear courtesy of the Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic LibraryI was diagnosed at birth and I always sort of knew I had Turner's Syndrome. My mum always spoke about it when I was around and when I was playing with my dolls she always used to say that not everybody can have children because some people have to adopt, and other things, so I always sort of knew.

 
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What are you good at?
 

I went to school and we were doing gymnastics in P.E. and my P.E. teacher then, told mum that I had a flair for it, for gymnastics, and that there was a special Olympics trials for the gymnastics team. And I had been ill through that entire summer, I'd been in hospital for three weeks and my mum said, "do you think she'll be strong enough", and my P.E. teacher said, "yes of course she will". So we went along in the October and I did the trials and to everybody's surprise I got in and I trained for a year and then I competed in the Portsmouth Special Olympics and won a silver medal, so that's how I got started. And last year I won silver individual again and then in November I became the British senior champion.

 
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How do you find school?
 

All images appear courtesy of the Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic LibraryWell Scotland have primary and secondary school, so I'm in secondary school now and I'm really enjoying it. It's good.

Interviewer: Have you ever had any problems with being bullied?

I was really badly bullied and I had to move schools because of it. I used to go to a school just across the road, and I moved to a special needs school nine years ago.

 
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