By most accounts, Shepherd Riddle is the typical 11-year-old boy — his grandma loves him and he likes exactly what you would expect. But it’s what he doesn’t like that you might not expect.
“I don’t like the attention at all,” said Shep, as his family and friends call him, who gets a lot of it at school. “It just annoys me, that every day I’m asked, ‘Hey, why do you need a wheelchair?’ ‘Hey, why can you stand if you have a wheelchair?'”
Once he’s in his wheelchair, his diagnosis becomes more obvious — he has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a disease that weakens the muscles over time…