First I want to say that I am glad a community like this exists, and I hope it develops into an active and supportive place. I was diagnosed with JRA at age 6, but did not know any kids or young adults with the disease until I started working at the AF last year. I have been lucky and have not had any disease activity for the last 8 years, and thought I had grown out of it, but now I am starting to feel the familiar stiffness in some joints and am back to going to the Rheum to see if it is RA. Facing the disease as a young adult is different than as a child when I was mostly oblivious to what was going on, so I am glad there is a place I can go to talk to people with the same experiences.





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