http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2010/01/a-cure-for-down-syndrome/ Girl in a Party Hat Mon, 02 May 2022 06:16:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://girlinapartyhat.com/index.php/2010/01/a-cure-for-down-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-1498 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:18:09 +0000 http://girlinapartyhat.com/?p=2178#comment-1498 Fist of all it does not cite a “cure” just memory boosting via medication (same as antidepressants) – nothing new there I think. Very misleading….
Second- that is a complex question. I guess it depends how unhappy the parent or child’s life is because of Down Syndrome. There is a wide range of IQ and functionality in the world for too many causes, mostly unknown variations on our theme -believe me because I work with them all every day. Because Down Syndrome comes in a neat diagnostic package it is easy to over focus on. The facts are you could have a child with complex neuro cognitive deficits and not even know it until they are way past any intervention – no label for that, just a behaviorally out of control kid for hard to understand reasons. As a Mom with a child who is happy and with whom I am happy- I’d like to see her be as healthy and best she can be and be happy but that does not automatically mean I would change her having Down Syndrome. But it certainly is something that takes time to digest and I’ve had ten years to!
PS- Did you read some of those awful comments? Geesh….

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