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Rocky Dennis was a truly remarkable person who showed us that disabilities don’t have to hold us back. Despite doctors believing he wouldn’t live past the age of seven, Rocky proved them wrong and lived a full and vibrant life. He became an inspiration to many and even inspired the famous movie ‘Mask’ in 1985. Rocky’s determination and strength of spirit allowed him to overcome incredible challenges and show the world that nothing is impossible.

Let us take a look at The Incredible Life of Rocky Dennis.

1) Rocky Dennis: Early life and diagnosis

Roy Lee Dennis, nicknamed Rocky was born onDecember 4, 1961. He was born to Florence “Rusty” Dennis and had an older half-brother, Joshua. Rocky was a healthy baby boy and showed no signs of any abnormality. However, it wasn’t until he was a little more than two years old that the first signs of his impending disorder appeared in his medical exams. Upon conducting further tests, it was discovered that Rocky had an extremely rare disorder called craniodiaphyseal dysplasia,

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Barbara March saw him out the corner of her eye, but kept her eyes on her roll sheet.

It was the fall of 1976, the first day of school at Sandburg Junior High School. The boy that walked into her ninth grade English class and took a seat in the front row was obviously trying to test her on her first day on the job.

The boy was wearing what looked like a plastic Halloween mask, two sizes too big for his small frame, one of those masks that grossly exaggerated people’s faces. When the boy got settled in his desk, March heard the rising clamor the boy’s mask was causing in her classroom.

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March knew that as a young teacher, she had to make sure the students understood that she was in charge. If the boy did not take his mask off when the bell rang, she knew what she would firmly say to him: “

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Mask (1985 film)

1985 American biographical drama film by Peter Bogdanovich

Mask is a 1985 American biographicaldrama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Cher, Sam Elliott, and Eric Stoltz with supporting roles played by Dennis Burkley, Laura Dern, Estelle Getty, and Richard Dysart. Cher received the 1985 Cannes Film Festival award for Best Actress.[2] The film is based on the life and early death of Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis, a boy who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare genetic disorder known commonly as lionitis due to the disfiguring cranial enlargements that it causes. Mask won the Academy Award for Best Makeup at the 58th ceremony, while Cher and Stoltz received Golden Globe Award nominations for their performances.

Plot

In 1978 Azusa, California, Rocky Dennis, a teenage boy with the extremely rare genetic disorder known as craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, is accepted without question by his freewheeling biker mother's boyfriend Gar, who is a father figure to him, his "extended motorcycle family," and his maternal grandparents w

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