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TikTok dancer Mya Pol has been using a wheelchair for almost two years. She speaks to Lauren Harano about her online dance content going viral.

When Mya Pol isn't rolling down the runway at New York Fashion Week, she can be found dancing in her wheelchair for her TikTok followers. After suffering unexplained pain and exhaustion about two years ago, Mya went to different specialists to try to understand what was happening to her body. Since then, her doctors have made little progress and her condition has worsened. What her body is undergoing is not easily diagnosable and requires extreme specificity, she said, making the process of getting the right treatment a long and strenuous journey. Mya also has reflex syncope, which puts her at high risk for passing out and causes her to be "gravitationally challenged." Because of this, Mya is a self-proclaimed "wheelie lady," but not just any wheelie lady: she's a dancing one.

"The very first dance I ever did in my chair is the first dance I posted on my TikTok . . . I made that dance almost a whole year before beginning to post," Mya Pol told POPSUGAR via email. With almost 377,000 TikTok followers and more than five million likes, Mya's content is not only going viral, but shedding light on what it means to be disabled... Keep reading on Pop Sugar.