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Slight addition.

Keloid disorder:

This signifies an inability to heal normally.

The unfortunates that react this way produce massive lumps and bands of bulging scar-tissue because of an overgrowth of granulation tissue when healing occurs:

Bad scar on girl's arm.

From: dermnetnz.org (permission sought to publish here), 2024, copyright dermnetnz, fair usage. Image will be withdrawn if permission denied.

The slightest scratch (from a vaccination in the picture above) can leave unsightly purple/brown bulges, way, way bigger than the original injury site was.

There is no cure, and this makes it all but impossible to remedy the cosmetic defects and useless when eye-surgery is needed.

Genetic screening would prevent the condition if those who possess it were not allowed to grow to term, but a widespread medical-scandal decades ago where money was being embezzled by a screening-test supplier supplying sub-standard products all meant that many were allowed to be born with this (and other...?) avoidable genetic conditions. A warehouse manager was blamed, just before arrest they mysteriously died in a brutal accident, and an underappreciated janitor then unexpectedly retired to the Bahamas.