“They Thought I Was Stupid”: Ronda Rousey Proved Her School Wrong After Discrimination for Suffering From a Rare Disorder

Ronda Rousey is currently a UFC legend who has transitioned fine into a WWE superstar from an MMA fighter. Over the years, we have seen Rousey using a wide combination of moves to smash her opponents in the UFC.

The reason why Rousey is a UFC legend is that she is the first Women’s Championship winner in the promotion. Moreover, she is the first female MMA fighter to be in the UFC Hall of Fame. However, did you know ‘The Baddest Women on the planet’ suffered from a rare disorder as a child?

A few years ago, in 2015, Ronda Rousey shared an awareness post on her Facebook page regarding Apraxia. Apraxia of speech is a neurogenic communication disorder affecting the motor programming system for speech production.

For the first six years of her life, Rousey struggled with speech and could not form an intelligible sentence due to apraxia, a neurological childhood speech sound disorder. This speech disorder was attributed to being born with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.

Laura Smith is a private clinician in Denver who specializes in childhood apraxia of speech. She shared how Rousey’s parents moved from Riverside, California, to Jamestown, North Dakota, in part to be near the Minot State University speech therapists, who set about bringing her vocal cords to their senses.

According to Smith, Apraxia is not a well-known condition. Smith too, took time to find out her daughter had the similar disorder. After finding out her daughter is suffering with the same, they met the UFC fighter. Rousey said, “Apraxia, yes, this is what they think I had. They wanted to put me in a special classroom away from my friends. They thought I was stupid! But by fourth grade, I was top of my class in algebra, and by high school I tested gifted.” (H/T FORTHEWIN)

Ronda Rousey overcame all odds and made a great career

As of today, Rousey’s profile states she is a professional wrestler, actress, former judoka, and mixed martial artist. She took her long-standing nickname, “Rowdy”, from the professional wrestler Roddy Piper, as she is a fan of him.

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Ronda Rousey is currently enjoying her time in WWE and is also getting paid well. Rousey was an active MMA fighter for six years (2011–2016). In the six years of MMA, she earned $4.3 million. However, in WWE, in her two runs, she has earned $5 million in less than two years.

Ronda Rousey in her MMA career has won Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight Championship once and the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Championship once. Adding to that, she also won the Bronze medal in the Summer Olympics in Beijing in 2008 in Judo. Moreover, in WWE she has won RAW and SmackDown Women’s titles once each.

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