"dwarfism" meaning in English

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          "text": "They didn’t find out I had achondroplastic dwarfism until a few months later. “Achondroplasia” is a word that haunted me in my childhood. I never wanted to hear it. It wasn’t who I was. I was not different.",
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          "text": "Sure enough, they are hard to miss. As a non-binary trans drag queen with dwarfism, [Tamm] Reynolds must be in a minority of one.",
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