MY JOURNEY WITH JIA
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I got diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis when I was 10 and I only ever struggled mentally with accepting myself when I was 12, 13 years old. The reason I wrote this book was to give myself closure and show that I had accepted myself, with or without arthritis.
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