14-year-old tells about being picked on because of illness As 14-year-old Michael Collins began to speak at a bullying prevention event, he didn’t expect to steal the hearts of everyone in the audience. Michael was born with vertebral defects, anal atresia, cardiac defects, trachea-esophageal fistula, renal anomalies, limb abnormalities and Poland syndrome. His illness causes the right side of his body to be under-developed, giving him a smaller arm that he calls his “lucky fin.” Michael faces many challenges, one of the biggest being that he didn’t start speaking until he was 6 years old. Having to defend himself was…