Success in today’s world is all about moving up and attempting to blend in as much as possible. Because you are viewed as “abnormal” or “odd” if you don’t fit in or are a little different from others.

It’s a depressing perspective on life, and it emphasizes appearance and peer comparison much too much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ask Jono Lancaster, who is a human being with the same flesh and blood as the rest of us but who regrettably has frequently been painfully reminded of how cruel the world can be.

 

Although Jono Lancaster was born in England in October 1985, he didn’t resemble the other hospitalized newborns.

Treacher Collins syndrome was the unusual prenatal disease that caused the adorable little boy’s facial bones to develop asymmetrically.

The physicians informed Jono’s parents that he would probably never walk or talk in addition to the diagnosis. Jono’s parents, who were stunned, decided it was too much and left him.

My parents were really taken aback when I was born. Within 36 hours of my birth, I was discharged from the hospital. Someone was assigned to look after me by social services. At the 2015 Nord Conference, Jono recalled the foster carer as a woman named Jean.