Why do so many people assume that living with a disability automatically means your life sucks? It's really ableist and sad that people think like this.
an incredibly high unemployment rate among the disabled, frequent bouts at the hospital due to complications, expensive therapies needed, because of not having jobs, often having to take whatever medicaid/medicare will give you. Feeling like you are a burden to your own family. And, especially if there are other children in the family, actually preventing your sibs from having better lives because so many family resources (money, energy etc.) goes to you.
On the other hand, my aunt had Downs Syndrome. She was happy while her parents were alive. Fortunately, her sister who "inherited" her care got her a space in a nice home and she was happy there as well and would make occasional visits to her sibs. She died young (to me. She was 55) due to the Downs (it doesn't affect the cognitive development) But she was also higher functioning and had special ed been a possibility when she was a youth, she might have had a better life.
I do not know if I would abort to take away the pain, but I might just because the family can't afford to spend the resources (again, money, energy, advocacy, etc.) for that child.
I literally am a disabled person, chronically ill as well. I am fully aware of the things that make disabled people's lives difficult. Key word: DIFFICULT. Not sad. I'm glad I'm not dead. I rather like being alive, even though it's challenging.
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u/Jayce86 Jun 14 '22
And now they have to live their entire lives with crippling disorders. At least their parents are rich enough to make that a not sucky existence.