Bizarre symptoms and debilitating neurological attacks that happened only at school upended eleven year old Jill's world. Skeptical medical specialists attributed the odd, recurrent symptoms to the adoptee's biological inheritance then to a mental illness. Disbelieving school officials labeled her an attention-seeking faker. Jill and her mother Joyce insisted the symptoms had a physical base. Medical experts were shocked when DNA testing proved that the mutant gene associated with a "rare," genetic metabolic/enzyme disorder was harbored in Jill's liver. Acute Intermittent Porphyria is...

Bizarre symptoms and debilitating neurological attacks that happened only at school upended eleven year old Jill's world. Skeptical medical specialists attributed the odd, recurrent symptoms to the adoptee's biological inheritance then to a mental illness. Disbelieving school officials labeled her an attention-seeking faker. Jill and her mother Joyce insisted the symptoms had a physical base. Medical experts were shocked when DNA testing proved that the mutant gene associated with a "rare," genetic metabolic/enzyme disorder was harbored in Jill's liver. Acute Intermittent Porphyria is...