I have three children, one diagnosed with an extremely rare disease, one with possible autism (waiting for the testing), and another with social anxiety. I tell my children (22, 18, 15) that they have been given these conditions not as punishment but because they were meant to do something with them. They have all took that and have really applied it to their lives and help others around them to overcome or work with their condition. They have also taken their conditions and have applied them to better their own lives by allowing their condition to show them different ways to do things and solve problems. They have also learned a level of compassion and love that people with out being born with conditions have a hard time achieving. We are not born with curses or something wrong with us, we are meant to learn, grow and show others something that can't be seen without having that blessing.