There is a little girl at my son's school. She's real little. She'll never grow taller. She suffers from a form of dwarfism in which she has tiny legs and arms, but her trunk is full size. She'll never be taller than 3 1/2 feet tall. Does that make her any less a person? Right now the school is desperately trying to educate the kids to stop staring and treat her like a normal 2nd grader. Not a baby. Not a freak. The kids struggle with this. And unfortunately, so do many adults.
It's a huge stigma for her and it's traumatizing. And she has no choice or hope of changing the situation ever. But I bet she'd like to.