‘Brothers handle newfound celebrity, sixth grade with aplomb’
July 4th, 2008
From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Brothers Will and Max Graf (l-r, with sister Laura) handle celebrity and middle school with confidence after being featured in the national media. The Post-Gazette began chronicling their middle school experiences last year, in stories here and here.
The brothers, who were both born with a form of dwarfism known as achondroplasia, have been featured in People magazine as well as NBC’s “Today” and ABC’s “20/20.”
Max, who’s starting to think he might like being a teacher, was only too happy to do his part in letting people know that dwarfs, despite their small size and slightly larger heads, are not “freak shows.”
“We’ve got the same size heart and same size brain as everybody else,” he said. “We’re no different. We’re just smaller. That’s it.”
The brothers also quickly dispelled fears about middle school when speaking to incoming students on an orientation panel, saying it was the best year they ever had.
(Scripps Howard News Service photo)
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