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Beating the odds

Submitted by Eric Zimmer on July 6, 2021 - 2:05pm

Lindsay Folland wasn't supposed to make it this far.

When I was a child I was given a formal diagnosis that I would never be beyond an elementary school level,” she says. “I was told I am too socially impaired to have any meaningful relationships and I would need 24-7 support to bathe, dress, and eat.”

However, the people who told her these things, she says, were “thankfully and obviously not psychic."