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10 Amazing Teens You Won’t Believe Exist

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Ten teenagers turn rare diagnoses into stories the internet won’t stop sharing.

The video “10 Amazing Teens That Will Inspire You,” curated by TheThings Celebrity, profiles adolescents living with conditions most people have never heard of — giant birthmarks covering most of the body, joints that dislocate on their own dozens of times a day, skin that reacts to water like an allergen. These aren’t athletes or child prodigies. They’re teenagers who got dealt a rare medical hand and decided to talk about it publicly instead of hiding.

• Ciera Swaringen, from Rockwell, North Carolina, was born with giant congenital melanocytic nevus (GCMN), a skin condition that occurs in roughly one in 500,000 births and covers about 70 percent of her body in dark birthmarks stretching from her navel across her thighs.
• Emily James lives with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a genetic connective-tissue disorder that causes her joints to dislocate multiple times a day, forcing her to sleep with limbs in splints and slings and to undergo jaw-fixation procedures to stop it from repeatedly detaching.
• Alexandra Allen, 17, has aquagenic urticaria, an extremely rare form of physical urticaria that triggers painful hives and burning whenever water touches her skin.

The Girl Who Calls Her Birthmarks “Angel Kisses”

Swaringen’s GCMN diagnosis meant she grew up covered in birthmarks that other kids couldn’t ignore — she’s said classmates on the school bus called her a “spotty dog.” Instead of covering up, she leaned the other way. In 2015 she went viral for posting photos that showed the marks fully, a moment that turned her into one of the more recognizable faces in this kind of viral advocacy story that year.

Her parents told her to call the marks “angel kisses” instead of something to hide — and she never stopped saying it.

That reframing is the crux of her segment in the video: not a medical explanation so much as a kid refusing to accept that a rare skin condition made her something to be embarrassed about.

Sleeping In Splints

Emily James’s condition works differently — it’s invisible until it isn’t. Ehlers-Danlos syndrome leaves her joints unstable enough that dislocations happen repeatedly through the day, and her nightly routine involves splints on her legs and slings for her arms just to keep them in place while she sleeps. Doctors have gone as far as fixating her jaw to stop it from detaching on its own, a detail the video uses to show how physically demanding an “invisible” diagnosis can actually be.

Allergic To Water

Alexandra Allen’s aquagenic urticaria sounds almost impossible until you see it explained: at 17, any contact with water sets off allergic hives and a burning sensation on her skin. It’s one of the rarest forms of physical urticaria on record, and the video treats it as exactly what it is — a daily logistical problem, not a punchline, since something as routine as a shower becomes a calculated risk.

The Rest Of The Lineup

The countdown rounds out with other teens facing visible or unseen differences, including biracial twins Lucy and Maria Aylmer, whose different hair and skin coloring surprised people unfamiliar with how genetics can play out between siblings, plus additional profiles the video frames around the same theme — kids whose bodies made them targets for stares or bullying, and who chose to talk about it anyway rather than disappear from view.

TheThings Celebrity built the whole countdown around one idea: these kids didn’t ask to be extraordinary, they just refused to hide. Swaringen still calls her birthmarks angel kisses. James still straps her own limbs in before bed. Allen still can’t take a normal shower. That’s the entire point of the video — not a moral tacked on at the end, just ten teenagers showing up anyway.