Born With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
When Cyntoia was born, she had a disease known as ‘Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.’ This is classified as a group of issues that children are born with due to mothers who drink alcohol throughout their pregnancy. Symptoms that occur within babies born with this disorder are physical abnormalities, behavioral problems and even weak intelligence, making many do poorly in school, lack impulse control and have major paranoia. It is also quite common that they themselves get into alcohol and drugs when they are older.
