Testing for Genetic Disorders

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GingerDS02 said:

It took me a loooong time to "get over it", not so with my friends who found out before. Just food for thought.

I am so not trying to start something here but I have a hard time believing that you can ever "get over it"
When you have a child with special needs. It's a grieving process. I am more at terms with it now, but will never ever get over the fact that my daughter may never be a typical developing child and may never live a "normal" life. Even if I would have had testing done and it had been discovered..which it wouldn't have been since she's still undiagnosed after several tests. Maybe I wouldn't have been so grief stricken, but I definitely wouldn't "get over it."

Once again, I don't mean to sound snarky, I just had to say something about that comment bc it hit me wrong.

GingerDS02

bellapup said:

It took me a loooong time to "get over it", not so with my friends who found out before. Just food for thought.

I am so not trying to start something here but I have a hard time believing that you can ever "get over it" When you have a child with special needs. It's a grieving process. I am more at terms with it now, but will never ever get over the fact that my daughter may never be a typical developing child and may never live a "normal" life. Even if I would have had testing done and it had been discovered..which it wouldn't have been since she's still undiagnosed after several tests. Maybe I wouldn't have been so grief stricken, but I definitely wouldn't "get over it." Once again, I don't mean to sound snarky, I just had to say something about that comment bc it hit me wrong.

You don't have to believe that you can "get over it" but that doesn't mean that people don't.  I don't find Down syndrome something to be sad about anymore.  Each person's experience is their own.  I don't cry over Down syndrome.  My son is amazing and Down syndrome makes up a huge part of the kid/person that he is.  Without it, he'd be a different kid and I love the kid he is.  I wouldn't change him for the world.  Do we have hard days?  Yes.  Do the good days out number the bad?  Yes.  Do our bad days have anything to do with Ds?  Not usually.