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    Can you hide disability with tight jeans and makeup? She did

     “If everybody’s not a beauty, then nobody is.” – Andy Warhol.    When Laura Maffei was diagnosed with progressive Muscular Dystrophy as a young teen (the nerve disease that the Jerry Lewis telethon supports), she was told by her parents to hide her new condition, to mask the growing-in-strength symptoms – the encumbered gait, the inability to hold in her gut – for as long as she could because discrimination based on disability is one of the worst kinds of discrimination you can experience. And it is. Comments I can tell you from my own experience, from going from a healthy 14 year old blonde white girl to a very…