Jesse commented that he hasn’t seen anyone here with Down’s Syndrome. This launched a deeper discussion, about the fact that kids with Down’s Syndrome weren’t generally in the community when I was growing up, either. Society needs more sophistication, and money, in order to empower kids with disabilities and create an infrastructure that mainstreams them whenever possible. What happens to kids with disabilities in the many many slums, where everyone in the family is scraping to make a living? Who is there to provide special services to kids that require them? And so what happens to these kids, after all? Where are they?
I imagine that they are hidden away to protect the family from stigma. They probably are not doing too well and w/o special services. Very sad.
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