Today articles
Related Articles
The Down Syndrome Awareness I Needed Before My Son Was Born
Reading now: 428
Since we are nearing the end of Down Syndrome Awareness Month, I have decided to take a slightly different approach. I am going to take a break from trying to educate people on facts about DS, and instead, take a moment to get real by admitting how I have viewed Down syndrome.
The first thing I thought, and this is really hard for a mother of a baby with DS to admit, was that I unconsciously had a very stereotypical image of Down syndrome in my mind before I had Ace.
If I were to be painfully honest, I thought people with DS were happy, not very intelligent, and almost child-like. And truthfully, before Ace, I didn’t even realize that having this image in mind of DS was a bad thing.
Read more on themighty.com
The website mental.guide is an aggregator of articles from open sources. The source is indicated at the beginning and at the end of the announcement. You can send a complaint on the article if you find it unreliable.
