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He can keep up with his baking in part because he is home-schooled by his mother, who quit
her job as a parent adviser for the Prince George's County school system in Maryland to take
care of Michael full-time. This setup was not the family's first choice. Michael withdrew
from public school - and his mother from her job - after he was diagnosed with epilepsy in
sixth grade. His seizures became too severe and too frequent to allow him to sit in a
classroom, his mother explained.
"It was a very, very difficult time," she said of the period after the diagnosis, during which
Michael had to restrict his physical activity. "He had to stop everything he loved:
gymnastics, climbing trees, diving.
"So that's when he kind of threw himself into baking," she added.
Michael said that baking makes him feel calm.
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