“I wanted people to also, that were different, or grew up feeling different, to not feel alone.” It’s always been this reason and never changed. “Before filming ‘I Am Shauna Rae’ season one and two, when we were kind of approached about the idea of doing a TV show, the only thing I wanted from it was to raise awareness about my disability and make it easier in the life that we live in for people with differences to walk around and find necessities that you can’t find as easily as you could if you were a normal statured human being, or if you didn’t go through this life handicapped or if you didn’t go through this life with a difference,” she explained. Her high school was “gigantic” and filled with a “lot of people who didn’t know anything about disabilities.”įor her senior year of high school, Shauna’s guidance counselor wanted her to attend school in person rather than do half online and half in person, but she didn’t feel she could do that. In eleventh grade, she did half of her courses online and half in person. Shauna continued to explain how difficult all the negativity was for her to deal with it and the fact that no one fully understood what she was going through. #shaunaraeadventures #shaunaraeadventure #shaunarae #iam #shauna #rae #iamshaunarae #dwarfismawareness #braincancerawareness #pituitarydwarfismawareness #braincancer #brain #cancer #survivor #cancersurvivor #cancertiktok #disabilitytiktok #dwarfismtiktok #disabilityawareness #disability #dwarfism #pituitarytumor ♬ original sound – Shauna Rae No one asked so I stopped speaking about it. It’s why social media breaks are important to me,” on My childhood was not “normal” socially, emotionally, mentally, or physically. It’s why I took a step back to find myself. When one fan asked about how she handles negative criticism, Shauna revealed what it was like for her in school in a video captioned, “Negative criticism now is nothing, but growing up it almost ruined me. Shauna often takes time to respond to her fans’ questions about her life and share the answers in videos on Instagram and TikTok. Through her hit reality show, “I Am Shauna Rae,” she was able to spread awareness and educate people on childhood cancer and the effect it had on her life. At the age of 16, she was diagnosed with pituitary dwarfism. Shauna, 24, was diagnosed with brain cancer not long after birth and underwent chemotherapy which affected her growth hormones. Shauna Rae Talks About Dealing With Negative Criticism Shauna Rae – Instagram The star of TLC’s “ I Am Shauna Rae” has been answering fan questions on social media and sharing a look into her life before, during, and after reality TV cameras were rolling.
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