‘Don’t call me cute’: Bullied boy with dwarfism Quaden Bayles and mum Yarraka share reality of going ‘viral’

He has always attracted an audience, people staring, pointing. Sometimes it’s discreet but it has always been there, strangers photographing and filming him.

Long before he became an internet phenomenon, when he was still a toddler, there was constant negative attention when he went out.

Because he was different, because he didn’t look like other children. Because he has dwarfism.

“I don’t like when they record me and they don’t care. And when I’m even eating lunch, they will record me,” Quaden says.

“Just be a bit more respectful and be more kind and not rude.”

How it made him feel was amplified to tens of millions of people around the world in…