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I had a Craniopharyngioma which is a rare non-cancerous brain tumor. It happened in 2020 when I began to notice symptoms. Not eating, not growing, drinking a lot of water, vomiting, extreme headaches the biggest of them all, and loss of vision.It began with headaches and I remember playing football/soccer it was halfway through the season and my Dad was a big person into soccer as he’s from Romania and that's like the most popular sport there and whenever I told him about the headaches, he would tell me to get back on the pitch.While was happening, I wasn't eating, like I could not. I remember I could not eat breakfast and all I could eat was half a granola bar, throwing the other half away. I didn't know what to do. The next thing I knew was that I was 30 kilograms at 11 years old, a couple of kilograms lighter than my sisters who were about 8 years old.It didn't stop, I didn't grow as I was 140 cm/4'6 at 11 years old. A kid in school made fun of me calling me short.My Mum and Dad would go to the hospitals and of course, they said, “People grow at different stages”. While this alertness was occurring I lost vision gradually over time since. It looked like looking into a light then looking away and seeing those black blobs. But almost covering all my vision.I didn't tell anyone, making me feel better, but worse.It all turned when I told my Dad something on my tablet and he said, “Which app didn't work”. Then it took me 10 seconds to find it when it was right there about half an arm's length away from my eyes.This shocked my Dad and took me to local eye doctors for tests and said I was lying. They referred us to a more advanced hospital which was a 3-hour drive to it, which was the largest city in Australia. We went there and spoke to professionals about it and told me it was “stress”. I remember my Dad saying, “What stress can an 11-year-old have”.We went back for the summer holidays, from December to January because I live in Australia and it got worse. My Mum said