Melissa Shang, who has a form of muscular dystrophy, started a Change.org petition asking American Girl to make its 2015 Girl of the Year doll a character with a disability. 'I want other girls to know what it's like to be me,' the Pennsylvania fifth-grader said.
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Melissa Shang, 10, thinks it is time American Girl makes a doll with a disability.
An adorable 10-year-old is asking the makers of the American Girl dolls to introduce a character that, like her, has a disability.
"Disabled girls are American girls too," Melissa Shang says in a video posted with her petition. "We face challenges and overcome them every day."
Melissa suffers from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a neurological disorder and form of muscular dystrophy that causes muscle weakness and numbness. She uses a wheelchair or a walker to get around.
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