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Disabled woman’s smartphone reveals glitch for all of us

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Having received help throughout her life, Cindy Moore has a good job and her own apartment in spite of a developmental disability. But she says buying this smartphone got her into trouble.

Burt Constable | Staff Photographer

Showing off a box of crayons in her bedroom she decorates with stuffed animals and unicorn drawings, Cindy Moore lives as independently as she can with her developmental disability.

Burt Constable | Staff Photographer

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With her developmental disability leaving her unable to afford and not sure how to use everything that came with her new smartphone on the table, Cindy Moore, right, recently gave her younger sister, Wendy Ballschmiede, left, permission to oversee her finances.

Burt Constable | Staff Photographer

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Having grown up with a developmental disability, Cindy Moore managed to get a steady job with a good company and live in an Arlington Heights apartment with another woman with similar mental abilities. But buying a smart phone led to trouble.