“I Was Born With An Extra Chromosome”
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so i was born with an extra chromosome i went to the doctor and i was feeling tired and i was wondering like what's going on why do i feel like this maybe you're depressed maybe you're overworked of course i knew i was different but did i know it was that definitely not hey my name's sheamus i'm 34 and i have 47 xxy so 47xy basically means that i've got an extra chromosome and my body doesn't produce sperm and i have low testosterone most men with 47xxy have all these difficulties learning difficulties being tired um infertile the biggest misconception is that extra x chromosome relates to being feminine and that's incorrect most people don't get diagnosed until they're in their like late 20s or early 30s when they're trying to have a kid for example so i knew i had physical differences when i was 23 when i you know was sexually active and meeting other people and i knew i looked different guys would say something you know and they'd be like oh why is your testes smaller or why are you sensitive there one of the symptoms for people and this is what doctors find out eventually when they do an examination is that we have smaller testicles kind of like a grape size that's why for example a lot of us can't have kids one of the big problems is like erectile dysfunction sometimes i'd just be like i don't feel like it and people would be like what i'd feel less of a man if i couldn't for example get it up and it happened for like three years it was up and down up and down i felt ashamed embarrassed my energy levels would be down i'd feel