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Meet 14yrs Old Ali Hussain, The Boy With The Body Of A 110-year-old Manau by princewoles: 7:37am On Aug 30, 2013
Meet 14yrs old Ali Hussain, The Boy With The Body Of A 110-year-old Man
August 27, 2013


This 14-year-old boy has been left with the body of a 110-year-old in India because he has a rare disease which makes him age eight times faster than normal.

Ali Hussain has seen five of his siblings- two of his brothers and three of his sisters, die from the same condition called Progeria which is known to affect just 80 people worldwide.

Sufferers are not expected to live much beyond the age of 14.
Life was made unbearable for him and his late siblings because of their disease, they were mocked inschool and called names like ‘big-eyed boy’ and ‘Patlu’ meaning skinny.
Eventually they all stopped going to school.

But despite the grim prognosis Ali has refused to give up hope. Ali says:

‘I very much want to live and I hope there is medicine for my condition out there. I’m not scared of death but my parents have suffered a lot. I’d love to live much longer for them. I don’t want to burden them with any more pain..

We had each other (his siblings) but that was it. We had no life. When we did go to school we were pushed and shoved, called names, kids tried to harm us. We can’t do much physically either; our lungs are so small weget breathless easily.

I would love to be a normal person who can play, go to school, do some sports, take some risks. Sometimes I get depressed but most of the time Imake the most of the life I have.’

Ali is now the family’s only surviving Progeria sufferer.
His parents Nabi Hussain Khan, 50, and Razia, 46, are first cousins and were the product of an arranged marriage 32 years ago.
Re: Meet 14yrs Old Ali Hussain, The Boy With The Body Of A 110-year-old Manau by buchito1(m): 9:09am On Aug 30, 2013
how u go put dis kine stori nd no picture Nawa ooo! See d kine suspence i had... Tinking picture dey down....!

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