I'm sorry but that's just rude. This girl is brave enough to share her problems and smug people like you love to knock her confidence down. I've been in her shoes and know the ridicule and hurt that she feels everyday. At the age of 3, I was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy and my muscles have been degenerating ever since. Growing up, light-hearted comments about my rotating left arm soon turned into hurtful insults and bullying.

One evening, on the way home from my university's library, I was approached circled by some men in their early 20s. When they picked up my hands and asked me to dance like a puppet, I assumed they were joking. I frantically tried, but I'm paralysed from the neck down and you could see that these boys were becoming impatient with me. I tried to flee and accidentally ran over one of their feet with my wheelchair. This angered the young man (it wasn't even his foot) who promptly tossed me out of the wheelchair and kicked me to the ground. As they rode off into the distance with my only source of mobility, I felt scared, alone, vulnerable. I don't want anyone feeling how I felt that day, and that's why it sickens me seeing such abhorrent comments on a young girl's picture. Grow up and show some respect.