Since screening for down syndrome became a thing, the world has become a little bit dimmer. Every time I ran into someone with downs, it was a pleasant experience. They tended to be happy, curious and without a sense or drive to harm people around them. Growing up, there was always this one downs guy on the bus. He would go to work on his own every morning. I was so proud. He'd sit on the bus, front seat behind the driver, staring at his Casio watch held in his left hand, right hand on the bar ready to hit the stop button. He'd only lift his head to smile at people getting on the bus and say "goodmorgong". He knew all the stops, whether the bus was running late, always smiling, always happy...
For me, he was a reminder that even if things aren't great, you can be happy and find purpose. If downs guy could ride the bus and make it to work every day, I could get my shit together too.
Would the world unironically be better if more people had down syndrome?
these things have to be maintained, and can't think alone. good riddance
Jose Cook
One of my relatives is a downie. His growth was horribly stunted and he can't even speak in anything but moans and yells. It's not a pleasant existence.
Noah Gray
Are you dumb? Most downies can self manage, probably better than a good chunk of this board lol.
The last time I ran into a downie was in high school, and two of them were fighting. It was a savage gorilla massacre, both of them hurling each other across the hall like a collection of loose boulders. There wasn't much going on in them upstairs, but their flesh mech bodies were 200lbs of solid fusion reactor tard rage. Eventually they smashed into a door to a classroom and broke it in, splintering the wood through the hallway like the Koolaid man busting through a wall. Everyone inside was shrieking. The campus cop showed up and got headbutted in his $50 made-in-China bulletproof vest that sent him flying ten feet backwards to the sound of a downie warcry, "WAGAAAAH!" I had tears from laughter. In that moment, I was at zen.
It would offend his mother if you called him retarded but I never took the word as offensive. The poor guy doesn't have the capacity to even be offended because not only can he not speak a real language he cannot understand one either. You have to talk to him purely in tones. It's the most pathetic existence I have known of but I don't have the heart to tell her.
Josiah Perry
asian people look like downies and dont understand anything. if op pic died hair black would look like a chinaman
Jack Baker
now you're just making shit up
Bentley Lopez
Retards are like angels. If you kill retards satan will have free run. Retards can sense evil like dogs
Thomas Powell
I shouldn't be laughing. But sounds like they made your world a little brighter that day.
Ethan Wilson
I've never met someone with DS who was that bad, I guess they don't typically make to any independence like going to school (special ed) or working at McDonalds or wtv. Has to be rough for your aunt.
Alexander King
>Retards can sense evil like dogs tards have the shining ..fuck off