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Help? Writing about a some sort of disorder... what kind of diseases would have these symptoms? Thanks!?

• I'm writing a book called 'Fate' ( 9th book ) and I have a character who has a disorder. I need these symptoms : Tired ( not like depressed ). Pressure on the lungs, arms, and legs. Poor balance. Droopy eyes... I don't know? Something that is both a physical and mental disorder, not anything like a tumor... I need it to most commonly take place in children, as the character is a young girl about six or seven years old. I like the idea of Muscular Dystrophy, EXCEPT that she is sent home with Hospice, but I CAN'T have all her joints locked up! She HAS to be able to move, and do SOME things herself! Not really big things, but some things like : drawing, minor walking, picking up small things ( light-weight cups, pencils, small books, etc. ), getting on button/zip-up clothes, stuff like that. I can't, simply can NOT have her joints all locked up, so she can't move! She's VERY important in the book, but she HAS to be able to do these small things! Thanks for any and all help I get, I really appreciate it! K.A.C.E./KellyEdis P.S. Oh! And umm... if you don't mind, I'm uncomfortable with anatomy, so if you can explain things so I don't have to look them up and get the full description, but use terms I understand as well... I'd be VERY happy. And please don't refer to my character as having something 'wrong' with them... you know, just because they have something that makes their life difficult or challenging, doesn't mean there is something that is 'wrong' with them. It just means they have a challenge or disability that makes their life different from yours... that doesn't make it wrong. Thanks again! P.P.S. By the way... I wrote this in a couple other places, in the Books and Authors section I got this answer : Honestly, if you're not comfortable with basic anatomy, then writing a story about a physically disabled child is almost certainly not for you. You're going to need to do _far_ more research than a couple of quick questions here in order for it not to sound like a cheap plot device. And this is the answer I gave back :No, no, no! Sorry, I should have specified, dumb me! I'm not writing a book about a child with disability, but she is a very important character! She comes in near the end of the book, but still. And you know, sometimes writing about the things you fear or are uncomfortable with, sometimes makes you less afraid of them. For instance, I'm terrified of death, but in every book I'm writing it generally seems to revolve around death or something related! I'm not really intending this... it's just how it turns out. Either way, she's not the main character, and the book is not based on that... the basic plot is a teenage boy meets a girl who calls herself 'Fate.' Fate is strange in many ways, but eventually Dragon ( the name of the boy ) falls in love with her and was going to propose to her. But the day he was going to propose, 'Fate' disappears without a trace... later he married another women and had a baby girl ( girl with disability ), then the mother dies and the daughter is diagnosed with ( disorder ) when she is about five ( almost six ). When she is about ( the middle of ) six or ( early ) seven she is sent home with Hospice, 'Fate' reappears to help her. 'Fate' reveals herself to be an Angel who can help her, and she left because she knew Dragon was going to propose, but if she said 'yes' ( which she would have ) she could not stay, as the higher Angels known as The Ring ( like a halo, you know? ) would have taken her wings ( not really there ), meaning turning her back into a spirit ( ghost ) because she could no longer help those who needed it.... dot, dot, dot, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, you get it. Either way I'm not writing about a disorder and the girl is not the main character... it's about 'Fate.' Thanks and sorry for all the confusion...

• Answer:

  The only thing I can think of that does happen in real life are the diseases where the doctors run many, many tests and still have no conclusive diagnoses. Seems this is happening a lot lately. From my own experience, I know that exposure to every day chemicals and pollutants coupled with poor diets (SAD - Standard American Diet works) I work with herbal specialists who utilize detoxification a lot and they seem to help people with all kinds of chronic conditions, diagnosed or not, they feel better when they detoxify with herbal cleansers. All of these symptoms could be due undefined pollutants and poor nutrition, coupled with perhaps a dysfunctional family or others with their own agendas, too busy to pay attention to her. Tie in poor attitude or inability of proper brain function as in a developmental birth defect and she could experience almost any kind of symptoms. How important is it that you put a title on the condition? Just describe the symptoms, that she isn't getting proper medical attention due to neglect, expense, whatever and what she has received stumps the professionals. You could introduce various chemicals that would produce the desired symptoms as needed, something like allergies, or special sensitivities. This happens a lot to real people in real life so I don't see not having a name for the condition as being much of a problem. I see this kind of stuff around me all the time.