article_snippet.sent: Jean Sharon Abbott, 38, from Plymouth, Minnesota, was told she had spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy, when she was just four-years-old, she explained to The Mighty.
article_snippet.sent: But after three decades of suffering from muscle spasms, weakness, near immobility, as well as undergoing painful surgical procedures, she learned at the age of 33 that she actually had dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD), a rare, yet treatable, muscle disorder. '
article_snippet.sent: The 38-year-old has now discovered she was misdiagnosed with spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy .
article_snippet.sent: : Jean, who is pictured with she husband (L) and by she (R), used a mobility scooter before she was diagnosed as having dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD), a rare, yet treatable, muscle disorder .
article_snippet.sent: my parents confirmed the spastic diplegia diagnosis and said that my doctor taught all of my parents.'
article_snippet.sent: another neurologist explained that the symptoms of DRD, including the involuntary muscle contractions and tremors, are often mistaken for cerebral palsy or other disorders.
highlights_snippet.sent: Jean Sharon Abbott, 38, from Plymouth, Minnesota, was told she had spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy, when she was four-years-old .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: she was 33-years-old when she learned she actually had dopa-responsive dystonia (DRD), a rare muscle disorder that can be treated with one pill .
  