'Sliding around in the dark': What it's like to have a rare disorder in New Zealand 27 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 9 minutes to read Jaime and Aubrey Christmas, in November 2020. Photo / Supplied Medical advice from Facebook, waiting years for a diagnosis, juggling dozens of specialists and even wishing it was cancer instead: these are the realities faced by the thousands of New Zealanders living with a rare disorder. Some might be the only person in the country with their illness, but in total they amount to 300,000 Kiwis. It's comparable to the number with diabetes, but their pathway to care is much less certain.