Being A Cleftie — A Rollercoaster Of Trauma, Resilience, And Success

Far more people are born with cleft lip and palate than we think, but far too few talk about it…

Attila Vágó
13 min readApr 16, 2023

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You look the way you do, because you were kissed by the angels before you were born, said a friend of mine many years ago. She claimed it was an old Romanian saying. Two decades later, I…

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Attila Vágó

Staff software engineer, tech writer, author and opinionated human. LEGO and Apple fan. Accessibility advocate. Life enthusiast. Living in Dublin, Ireland. ☘️