five-time Paralympic gold medallist Yip Pin Xiu, who has Charcot-Marie Tooth disease, a progressive nerve condition, shared about how growing up with a disability made her a"really tough person".
"But I wouldn’t say that it was very difficult at that point in time because I was thrown into this circumstance where I just had to accept it as it was," said the the optimistic Pin Xiu. was a bit more rampant during [her] primary one to four years because [she] really didn't have any friends".wore an AFO , which are like leg braces.hands, she said,"no longer had as much grip", which made her"a bit slower" in terms of her movements.
And because of the dismissive attitudes from her teachers towards what she was going through, Pin Xiu ended up choosing to keep mum about the bullying 'cos she"didn't feel the need to [tell anyone].