Hasiyna Price, right, tells her cousin Danette Banks about being a teenager with scoliosis.

HP: I have like a bump on my back, and my spine is twisted. My arms are a little too long for my body. Like one is longer than the other. But I don't care what anybody say, like, now I don't care. Usually they go around and say--

DB: Humpty Dumpty can't move and stuff like that.

HP: Yeah.

DB: I knew that used to upset you because you would start crying and go in the house. But I think you're very pretty.

HP: I don't care what they think.

DB: Why do you go in the house? Because you just showing them what's getting to you. They'll keep doing it constantly because they know it's getting to you.

HP: They don't do it now because I don't let people talk about me no more. I just say 'you call me hunchback, but I'm the flyest hunchback you know'. If you bother me I'm going fight you no matter whether I know you or not.

Is there anything about me you wanted to know, but never asked me?

DB: Yes. Why don't you talk to the boys who want to talk to you? Why don't you like them?

HP: I don't want them to find out about my back and then break up with me because of that.

DB: So? Your back is something you were born with. It don't mean anything wrong with you.

How would you like to be remembered?

HP: As the sweetest girl--If you don't get on my bad side.

DB: (Laughter) You are a crazy little girl...