Dustin From ‘Stranger Things’ Speaks Out About His Disability

“I just want to raise awareness for it,” he told Ross. “And let people know that it’s not something that you should be afraid of showing.”

Gaten boasts this opinion despite being rejected for acting jobs for two years because of his disability.

“It was always because of my lisp, and me being shorter and having the teeth issue, that was always the reason they couldn’t cast me,” he told the radio show BBC 5 Live. “Because they couldn’t write in a disability into the show because they had already written the script.”

Yet, the Duffer brothers, who created “Stranger Things,” decided to embrace Gaten’s cleidocranial dysplasia and gave the funny and lovable Dustin the same condition.